I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.

When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.