“I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open ...” — John Caudwell Quote

“I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.”

“My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.”

“Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.”

“I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.”

“Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes.”

“There is something very cyclical about the way fashion designers work. They work and work and work, the collection is finally shown, and after those 15 minutes, they must start over from the beginning. This is not unlike the way I work creating new dances.”