You can get insular with fashion.

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.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

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.

I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.

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.

The police need to come down to street level.