Quotes from Patrick Cox

Elizabeth Hurley rocks. She really rocks.

Archives can be inspiring but overwhelming. You have to forget them - especially when the whole world has been knocking them off. Everyone shops the same flea markets.

I'm kind of the shoe guy.

I love talking in lira because, suddenly, everything is in billions.

The word 'modern' is a cliche.

I'm addicted to chinos the second weather gets warm enough.

I finished college by July 15th, 1985, and by October 1985, I had a little stand during the trade show which was London Fashion week at the time. My stand was tiny - just 6 square meters in total - and I had my 12 shoes that I designed while in college.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

I have a pop sensibility, which I think comes from all those weekends spent in nightclubs.

I am a magpie. My eye collects details.

In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture - the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are much broader.

By the time I came out of college, I was fabulous.

Do I miss shoes? I miss the designing, but I don't miss the fashion industry. Those people eat their children.

If you use your own name as your business brand, keep in mind that if you lose that brand, you have lost your name. And that is a bit of a problem going forward in life. If you decide to make up a name, and if you have lost that name, then who cares. But when it is your name on the products, and you lose it, that is the game changer.

I couldn't have asked for a better testimonial than Bob Dylan parting with his own cash for a pair of my shoes.

It is all about quality of life and being proud of what I do. I need me to be me.

There is nothing worse than bright lighting - it isn't flattering and makes the glamorous women want to leave.

Most of my holidays are with wonderfully generous friends with houses in the country or the South of France.

I was wondering if the best was behind me, had the high point of my career already happened. Then I saw what Manolo had done, and some of his best work happened after he turned 40.

After selling the business, and the Patrick Cox brand in 2007, I had a three-year non-compete, where I just spent a lot of time hanging all over the world on beaches and having fun.

Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

Show some originality and never wear one designer head to toe.

I think a house should reflect the interests and personality of the occupant, but it takes time to gather together the objects one likes around oneself.

Rock stars love Cuban heels because a lot of them tend to be diminutive. And I've never met a man who doesn't mind having an extra inch or two anywhere on his body.