I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

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.

IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.

Greatness lies not in high or outstanding ability. It lies simply in the willingness to use what we have for others. The greater the 'other people' dimension, the greater our personal 'greatness'.

Time and I against any two.

My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I'm doing my own.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.