As soon as that was kind of green-lit, it became very obvious to me what I wanted to do and it was an instinctive reaction to my relationship with how I wear my Ugg boots. Which is in London and in New York, I wear them as soon as I get in basically.

Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.

I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important.

London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.