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I was a young man, and this is...

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.

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My most treasured clothing ite...

My most treasured clothing item is first suit that I made - acid green. It was disgusting, but I love it. It's been mended a million times, but I still wear it.

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I'm not very nostalgic, you s...

I'm not very nostalgic, you see. I just don't think anybody has that kind of thing anymore. By culture, by breeding, by whatever, it's not there. The kids today-what the hell are they going to be? I like young people - yes, I do. But when I talk to people at the schools, and they say, 'I saw you on the Twit,' I don't even know what they are talking about.

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I'm a doodler. It was my firs...

I'm a doodler. It was my first job as a boy, and I still do it. At night I keep a block of paper and a pencil with a huge piece of string next to me. When I have an idea, I grab the string and just doodle.

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I like the new shoe designers....

I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the colleges with these kids for lectures, as an honorary professor or whatever, and this Chinese girl I like very much who I give the award to says to me, 'You don't know how much you inspired me to do shoes.' And I'm glad that I convey that kind of desire to people when they see my bloody shoes.

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The most tragic moment of my l...

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.'

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I'm an old bag - I like old t...

I'm an old bag - I like old things.

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David Lynch is démodé...

David Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend.

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The only people that come to m...

The only people that come to my mind in the last years are Lee McQueen and John Galliano. Truly, truly . . . How do I say? Full of ideas. Full of the smell. They just had this incredible passion for what they did.

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I think I make shoes quite oka...

I think I make shoes quite okay.

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Peter Hinwood found all these ...

Peter Hinwood found all these old pictures - Polaroids - and when I saw them, I just didn't believe that the person in them was connected with me. I was in a hotel room with one of those front-and-back mirrors, and I thought, Who the hell is that? I used to be thin as a rake. I used to have the nice-shaped pecs. It's sad. No, it's not sad, it's the reality, and I've accepted this now.

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It's the only thing I get ins...

It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?

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Remain dignified, dress well, ...

Remain dignified, dress well, be good to other people and you'll be fine.

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I think I am one of the smalle...

I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.

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I like women with style to wea...

I like women with style to wear my shoes.

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What is fashion? It's discipl...

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

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I think of each new season as ...

I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.

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I do and re-do things that I u...

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

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I'm like an old vampire, so i...

I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

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Sometimes I hate a shoe in sec...

Sometimes I hate a shoe in seconds.

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