Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Yves Saint-LaurentThe most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world. - Alicia KeysIt's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
Fame should be left to the film stars.
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
There is no better designer then nature
I am married to work.
You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
The police need to come down to street level.
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive.
Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
I've had good times; I've had bad times.
I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.
My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
