Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

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.'

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

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