Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.
I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.
The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.
I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.
Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!
The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.
I realized I'm not the kind of person who wants to go with the flow and fit in. I'm an agitator, I'm opinionated, I'm a libertine and leader.
I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.
Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
Will it make me something? Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes, already am, always was, and I still have time to be
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
I think that a woman that is elegant herself is somebody who can dress herself easily and effortlessly.
