Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.

For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I used to dream all those years ago as a child looking at beautiful photographs. I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side

You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary.

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid

Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.

Fashion isn't just frocks. It's how we do our houses, our gardens, it's what we eat and drink.