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.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

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

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. 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.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.