We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

When I really treat myself, I go to incredible Leonor Greyl in Paris for a head massage.

The best part of work is always working with people and getting to know them and having the sense that you're not actually working.

The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.