My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.

I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

I don't have regrets because they are negative.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.

I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.

I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.

Don't take things too seriously.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

...I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.

I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at 1:00 and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

My gut sense is there's something necessary going on and if I'm too fearful or angry, I feel like I'm feeding it.