Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.

Why do people think that if you don't dress up, others will appreciate your beauty more - that style will somehow emanate from you? It's rubbish. If you dress up it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well

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

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

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