Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

Design is an unknown.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

Once you put yourself on the lookout for teachable moments, you'll find them everywhere!

Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

Never give up your dreams and stay focused on your passions.

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

An outsider's point of view is always handy.

As many servants so many enemies.

Clothing is ultimately the suit of armor in which we battle the world.