"What you do is perishable in womenswear. Even if you try to make non-perishable clothes, like I do, it is still perishable. Meaning that there’s a lifespan on the shelf, and it needs to change, and then it needs to change, and then it needs to change. And it changes so quickly that, you know, as a filmmaker you can make a film and then have a 3, 5 year break before you make another one. As a fashion designer, on the day I showed my last collection in London, the next day the sketches had to be handed in for cruise, and you don’t have that downtime that people did have back in the 70s when Saint Laurent and Halston, you know, they really did go off to islands for weeks and think. We don’t have time to catch our breath in womens fashion industry."