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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. Don't dress to kill, dress to survive. I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase. Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read. All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox. Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them. I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my...

Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity. It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry. There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people. Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself. I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of. For me, the summer...

I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities. It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge. I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore. I am always locked in my design studio. What I hate is nasty, ugly people. I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting. I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment. Vanity is the...