As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

I am a melancholy type of person.

I am married to work.

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.

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

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

I want to empower women.

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

Nicey nicey just doesn't do it for me.

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

The police need to come down to street level.