Luxury must be comfortable

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world. I like things simple. Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten. We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement. There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead. That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live. Instead of buying six things, one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it. I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. Instead of buying six things, one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it. You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it. Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness. Fashions fade, style is eternal. I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something. There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

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My breakfast is very important

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. My breakfast is very important. I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities. You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it. I have an obsession with details and pattern.

Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good. Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind. Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising. Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today. It is important to be chic. If I had the power, I would ban leggings. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

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I use it to buy my freedom

It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to feel comfortable and look organic. Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them. I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that. The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying. I am always locked in my design studio.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue. I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing. I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity. Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk. There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom. Women are women, and hurray for that. For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink. Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

Every day I'm thinking about change. 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. I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated. Clothes can transform your mood and confidence. A woman has the age she deserves.

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There is always the new project

  It is important to be chic. Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world. I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things. You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure. The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.

Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity. I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today. First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

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