My cat is older than many fashion models. I won't even discuss the fact that she also weighs more.
It was once people began taking my picture every time I left the house - because it's an easy fashion shot - that I started getting a bit weirder about going out without any makeup on, and I think that's when I started wearing foundation every day.
Fashion embraces the weirdos. They're into that. There are always young people that people in fashion are interested in. You know, youth and vitality and energy - it brings something different.
As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading.
The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
Fashion brands looking for explosive growth go the wholesale route, to get their products into stores, but then they end up relying on those sales.
I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
I have often been criticised for doing an about-face from one season to the next - as has my wonderfully inspiring lady designer whom I love so much, Miuccia Prada - but that is what I love about fashion.
I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I'd start a collection, I'd sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.
Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist.
"Orange is not the color of seduction, Christopher. Orange is the color of despair, and pumpkins."
"But I don't want to be a vampire drone." Sophronia winced. "They'll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions." Petunia nodded in an I-know-more-than-you manner that was highly aggravating. "Yes. Yes, they will."
