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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.

In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

Fashion is a real passion in my family. I never even realised it was something glamorous until much later. For me, it was my family's job.

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

The fashion world has always been part of my life.

I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.

I don't wear much makeup, except during work. I felt lucky to be chosen to be a model. I used to joke, 'The next best thing to winning the lottery is having a beauty contract.'