I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

Be the designer of your own destiny.

It’s not about what you wear, but about how you live your life

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.

Knowing something is just something, until you apply your knowledge to make it everything.

No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.

Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference nor ire, but a perceived warmth to another soul

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.