The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.
Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.
I don't follow brands religiously, but there are certain brands I feel comfortable wearing, like H&M and Zara.
They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me.
Standardized sizes made inexpensive, off-the-rack garments economically feasible. They gave shoppers a reliable guide to finding clothes in self-service shops.
After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.
I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.
I usually have a hard time with the fit of off-the-rack suits, thanks to my athletic proportions, but somehow Burberry always fits me perfectly. There's no tailoring really required, which is rare for me.
It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.
I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.
