Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. 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.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.