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

Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.

I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.

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.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

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