If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I’ll tell you what I’d like them to buy—nothing. I’d like people to stop buying and buying and buying.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. You know, all those incredible geniuses concentrated their lifetimes' experiences in books. It's much better than chattering away to somebody who's never read anything and knows nothing at all.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!