I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.

Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.

Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

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

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

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.