You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

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

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.

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.