The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

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