was just making [Beatrice] look young and sexy, using the colours and getting the advertisers in. Otherwise [Tatler's editor] Geordie Greig would have killed me.

Young designers don't grow on trees.

I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.

Fashion is a vampiric thing; it's the Hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, 'Oh, can I kiss you?' I say, 'No, thank you very much.'

You're not well enough for the story they've planned.

She had an amazing figure and her clothes were very severe and elegant.