"I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are."

"I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12."

"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."

"I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design."

"There are no shortcuts to achieving your dreams; you have to walk the path step by step."

"I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels."

"I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn't be the hardest thing that you do."

"There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act."