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

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

I am married to work.

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

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 prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.