In history people dressed much better than we do today.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

The most erotic zone is the imagination.