The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

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.

When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.

There is no better designer then nature

What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.

Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex.

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.