“Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. ...” — Robin Givhan Quote

Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.

It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly.

Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.

The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.

I don't necessarily buy the story that Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11.

I love my wife and daughters, but there are times you want to put them in the bin.

With winning the Baftas - with the writing one in particular - it was like, 'What? Writing? I'm not a writer. I work in Waitrose for three hours every Saturday with my shirt untucked. I get told off for trying the dragon fruit by the bin because I don't know what it is.'

Some songs are dead easy, and others can be quite challenging. Other times, you just have to put it in the bin.

I think it is important to recall the context of those challenging times immediately following 9/11. For me, I had just returned to Washington from an overseas posting and I reported for duty on the morning of 9/11. I knew in my gut when I saw the video of the first plane hitting the tower in Manhattan that it was bin Laden.