You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!

I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.