I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

I like to literally put women on a pedestal

Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.