You Put High Heels On And You

I Hate These Platforms That Are All Over The Place Today; They Are All About Grabbing Attention. They Are Suburban! I Never Do A Platform. Well, I Did, In The 1970s, But That Was A Bad Experience.

I Forget About The Diseases That I Have. I Don't Want To Know.

I Do Enjoy My Own Company. I Cannot Imagine Anybody Entertaining Me More Than I Do. If It Sounds Selfish, I Don't Care. I Made It A Religion Almost.

When I Was A Boy I Remember The Women, How They Dressed, How They Behaved, What Was Important To Them At The Time. Like Lee Marvin And Gloria Grahame In The Big Heat.

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.'