31 Quotes by Sarah Burton

I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon’s early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.

I wasn’t the trendiest girl at college.

I would check myself and wonder if I had already contracted the plague, as in such strange countries my thoughts rambled. But then I decided it was merely the times that made us strange, and we must cling to our sanity, and accept there were fewer and fewer touchstones against which to check or measure it. It often felt as though it was a daily battle merely to stop ourselves running mad.

When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can’t stand behind it, so there’s no point in doing it.