I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.
Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.
There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasn't always translated to the streets.
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.
I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.
I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
I can create clothes for so many different time periods. I've always tried to avoid being pigeonholed. Plus, everything I learn about design and costume from one movie somehow works its way into something else.
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.
I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.
If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star.
My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk.
My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.
My favourite designer is Mulberry - their bags are lovely, but their clothes are amazing, I don't think people realise. I love D&G, Fendi, Moschino, Chanel, Armani - all the classics!
I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They're the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing.
Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.
When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.
Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.
