I Don't Consider Myself A Fashion Designer.

Men Tell Me That I've Saved Their Marriages. It Costs Them A Fortune In Shoes, But It's Cheaper Than A Divorce. So I'm Still Useful, You See.

The Most Tragic Moment Of My Life Was The First Show I Ever Designed For. I Had Been Asked To Make Shoes For Ossie Clark's Show In The Early '70s. I Was So Inexperienced That I Didn't Put The Steel In The Heels Of The Shoes, Which Is Required To Support The Shoe And The Wearer. So The Girls Came Out Walking Very Strangely In These Rubber, Bendy High-heeled Shoes I Had Made. I Thought 'oh Dear God! This Is The End Of Me.' But After The Show, Even David Hockney And Cecil Beaton Said To Me 'it Was So Interesting That The Girls Were Moving In Such A Different Way.'

I Really Connect With Victoria Beckham's Desire To Do Something That She Wants To Do. Of The Girls We've Been Talking About, She's One Of The Few That Has This Incredible Sort Of "i Want To Do It, And I Want To Do It Well."

I Never Wanted To Be The Most Famous, The Most Beautiful, The Most Extravagant.

I Was A Young Man, And This Is The Kind Of London It Was, But So Many People Are Just Not Here Anymore. Not Even Tina [chow], Who Was To Me Absolutely The Most Important Girl Of The Time. Tina Was Absolutely The Chicest Thing, The Way She Kept Herself, The Way She Moved. You're Born Like That - You Cannot Acquire It. All Those Upper-class Girls, People Like Catherine Tennant, They Used To Be There In Chelsea, Sitting On The Couch. Now Chelsea Is Full Of Russians.