I have a total complex [because of my curls], though, because I got teased a lot as a kid.

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

Fashion now is just so confusing. It doesn't feel as easy. Fashion seems to be in a much more eclectic place.

I didn't do great in school. I didn't have many options. I mean, I'd like to have gone to art college, but I didn't have the grades. I didn't have any qualifications. But I had some friends who were hairdressers, so I just thought, Well, I'll have a go at it.

Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel.

I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.

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.