We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I can't think without my glasses.

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