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.

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

I can't think without my glasses.

My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

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.

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