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’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.

I can't think without my glasses.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.