“I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'”
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Nobody has time to keep trying on a load of things in the morning like a teenager.
It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.