These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.

People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.

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

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

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

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

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.