I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people.

I prefer to stay poor.

I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

I love film - it's like painting.

Bill Cunningham... he knows fashion better than anybody.

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era.

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mother's clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

I make clothes; women make fashion.

I’m happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that’s the one thing I’m sure about.

I’m always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.