The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.
I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!
I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.
We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.
Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. At the end of the Roman era, there was this whole move against togas, because that was the signifier of the Roman Empire. In the same way, the '60s were a reaction against the '50s and so on. But now we've been feeding on a sort of cadaver. At the moment, we're just endlessly recycling the past.
I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.
As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour
As soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.
Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a reflection in a cracked mirror.
Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer.
Be true to what you said on paper.