If a piece is individually made to measure, then it's couture.
People should just get over themselves.
I've always drawn a lot. I like the idea of turning a 2-D sketch into a 3-D thing very quickly. And clothing is really good for that.
I've been a fella in the fashion industry for a very long time now, and the industry has been very good to me.
With all my clients I work with, they all have their absolute specialness about them.
I really like doing good work and working with good people - that's the thing that drives me.
Fashion was spontaneous and about getting things done, which I really liked.
I was never one for just sitting in front of the telly.
I believe in the democracy of design.
It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... Homelessness can happen to everybody.
I can never really comment on rumours.
The natural world is a source of inspiration.
Cecil Beaton was Andy Warhol before Andy Warhol, really.
The women that wear my clothes would want a pink BlackBerry in their handbag.
I have an art-school background, not a fashion background where it's like, 'Oh, we're going on holiday to Miami.'
My designs at Ungaro are a lot more sexual, in more of an obvious way my personal designers are a little bit more sideways.
I don't design for wallflowers.
Just because something is less expensive shouldn't mean it is less well designed.
Fashion designers seem the busiest people on the planet.
I go to L.A. Three or four times a year. It's great for research.
People are often a bit more adventurous with swimming costume prints; they like the idea of something a bit more jolly.
Even if you have a lot of money, you may not want to spend a lot of it on clothes.
The reason I wanted to work with New Look was that they wanted to stick with one designer and do lots of collections a year.
I try to exercise three to four times a week.
A healthy body really does make for a healthy mind.
I like to have a swim in the morning, a great way to start the day.
