Take a second look, you might have not seen it all.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress!

For me style has something to do with your inner attitude towards clothes and the awareness what sits well on yourself.

I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.

I've dipped my toe into the beauty world and I'd like to keep it there!

I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.

Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.

Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.

If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?