I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.

I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.

I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit.

We're into Nicole Kidmans, rather than the young girl who just got married in a tracksuit.

I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.

I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.