You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.

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.

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.

You can get insular with fashion.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.