You've got to know the rules to break them.

I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.

I am a melancholy type of person.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.