I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It's what you make of it, you know?

I love crazy, gaudy bling.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.

One of the reasons I wanted to collaborate with Target is because I felt that together we could create a collection that would inspire - one that is cool and chic, but still very accessible.

I have always had a relationship with clothes.

There is a secret hippie within me.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

I don't know anyone my age.

In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.

He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.

You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad dash to have everything else.

Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.