I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.

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.

As soon as we are born we hide God in ourselves.We then spend our lives looking for Himwhen all along, He has been concealed behind the veil of 'I'.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing.

Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.

I'm just the annoying person who's like "Hi! My name is Alanna! Do you want to chat?"

The first rough draft of history.

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.