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.

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

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.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

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.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!