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.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

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

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.