I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world.

I wasn't the trendiest girl at college.

I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.

We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.

With McQueen you have so much at your fingertips. That is what's so incredible about this place. Lee built an amazing house, an English house - and that is very important - where creativity rules, where you can do whatever you want to do for the shows because no one's saying: where's your basic dress, where's your three button jacket?

I think maybe that as time goes by there will be more newness but because I was part of what it was before it's not like coming into a house and saying it's all about me. I don't feel like that. It really is all about McQueen and the things that he was trying to say and about moving that forward, making it relevant, making it desirable, making it into what people want to wear.

I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world.