There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.

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.

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'm the pink sheep in the family.

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.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.