"There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person."

"Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way."

"I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists."

"I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late."

"If Judd Apatow called me, I'd do it without thinking about it. I think he does really fun movies."

"I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous."

"People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected."

"A great mind becomes a great fortune."