I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.