All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.

Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

Beautiful things are different.

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.

I wasn't as confident and creative in the beginning as I am now, so it was all very safe. But I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

I celebrate every culture. I love the mix of cultures and I'm never going to change that because that's inspiring to me.

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.