You have to go charging ahead, you can't stay behind.

Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.

Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side

For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I used to dream all those years ago as a child looking at beautiful photographs. I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

I don't mind to look older. I don't have this urge that so many people have that they've always got to look young all their lives. I think you should be the age you are and enjoy it... But if you want to have it, go ahead and have it, but take a good look before you do because, just maybe, you look absolutely beautiful the way you are.

I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic

Fashion isn't just frocks. It's how we do our houses, our gardens, it's what we eat and drink.