Even though the industry is very big and there's lots of money, when it gets down to it, whether it's a photographer or a designer, as well as a stylist or makeup artist, you're really only working with maybe four or five people on a project. It's all quite small and intimate.

I must say, Gisele's [Bundhen] got some of the best hair I've ever touched.

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

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

When you look back at your career, there are moments that are levels that you hit and you bounce off them.

The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.