Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.