I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.
I wish you didn’t have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.
I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.
I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it’s the most aspirational diet because it’s so easy. It’s quite simple, the cooking I do.
I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‘The King’s Speech’ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.
I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.
I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.
I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.
I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.
I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
If we didn’t have the Chinese buying things, we’d be on the floor.
If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.