I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

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

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.