My deep relations with fashion started in Paris in 1980s, when I was appointed head of The Fashion History course at French Esmod fashion school, the biggest and the best in those years in Paris.

The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.

Our fate liesin the handsof the things we loveand sometimesthe things we loveare the thingsthat lead usto the fatal destructionof ourselves.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate our reform efforts in order to really to achieve reforms, one by one.

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.