England was very frustrating in the Seventies for anyone who was trying to wake up. It was visible in punk, in clothes, and in the revival of mods and rockers fighting. All kinds of things were going on that just weren't individual to myself.
It's not like I came out in 'Rolling Stone' and all of a sudden I had a closet full of all the clothes I want.
You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope.
Everything is very individual for me in the way that I work; I don't just show a rotating rack of clothes.
My closet is pretty organized, I'm proud to say. It's set up by type of clothes and then by color. And then, of course, there's the rotating from spring/summer to fall/winter.
I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
At Rent the Runway, we rent designer clothes. We have a belief set that half of the closet over time is going to move into the cloud, and a portion of what we wear every single day will be comprised of things that we don't own forever.
I clearly remember my father cutting our jumpers and our sports clothes with scissors - because he didn't want us to wear jogging bottoms and hoodies. He thought that would somehow set the police on us.
I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.
I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.
I'm not a fan of second-hand or vintage clothes.
I really love secondhand clothes. It's fun to turn them into something new.
Self-discovery is so important in identity processing: who you hang out with, what clothes you wear, what shows you see. As a kid, I found out about things through friends. I would go to hardcore shows with 50 people.
I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.
When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.
I feel like in my senior year of high school, I had my clothes a lot more figured out. I had my hair figured out.
Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love.
I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
