I wasn't worried about turning 40 at all.

I don't look at fashion the way other people do.

You are by yourself for the best years of your life. You sleep in airports. If it doesn't kill you it makes you strong.

Everything we have is everything we love - it's basically like we picked for our homes and then just put it for sale in a store.

There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.

Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.