There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

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.

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

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