The #1 Colour Girls Are Most Worried About Wearing in Fashion Week

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement. When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren’t so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness. Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It’s a question of survival. We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air sleek understatement. There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

I like the things around me to be beautiful & slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.

Nova was the magazine that we all wanted to read in the Sixties because every issue brought something new and relevant to our lives: extraordinary fashion by Molly Parkin; innovative layouts and photographs by Harri Peccinotti; articles about the Pill and our new sexual freedom and a different take on beauty, fashion and celebrity – for one incredibly complicated story, we revamped the Queen. Our editor, Dennis Hackett, always thought outside the box always thought outside the – he once wanted to print the magazine back-to-front because he noticed women always started reading it at the end, but the bosses wouldn’t let him.