And it's absolutely great, when everything comes together with the hair, the dresses and the makeup and the models and the music and the presentation. I can't get over these girls. They look wonderful. But by the time we finish with them, they look like they came from another planet. And I just think it's great.

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.