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.

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.

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.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.