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

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

Three rules of success in fashion: perseverance, dream a bit and be passionate about it.

I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

Do I dream very much? Do I dream predominantly about fashion? No. I dream much more about cats.

People stopping you in the street, though, is very different from being hounded by the press, which is the kind of attention that celebrities get, and I'm probably too old for that kind of thing to happen anyway. I think it happens more when you're dating all sorts of different very handsome actors or something. They want gossip and scandal, and they know they're not going to get it from me because I'm too old to be scandalous. Of course, they could read the book - although it's not really a scandalous book.

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