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

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

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.

If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.

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.

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.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.