I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

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.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

I am a melancholy type of person.