Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.