Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice

You can't have style if you don't have substance.

Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

I have my fashion empire to build.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.

I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.

What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.

With luck, it might even snow for us.

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.

Books are always good company if you have the right sort.

If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.