You really have to have a goal.

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

As a woman you're not accessible to every world.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

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

I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.