I only feel the pressure when we are coming up against a deadline and it's like, actually no we really have to nail this in a week!

I have my name down for the Apple Watch and yoga. I know it's a cliché but I need that antidote, it helps with everything.

We spotted Beyoncé, January Jones, Rihanna and Carey Mulligan wearing the label [Karen Walker]. I was ecstatic, but I'm just as thrilled to see interesting girls wearing our product everywhere. It's quite a buzz.

I loved the idea that people dressed up to go to the gardens. Our work always has a utility point of view at its heartbeat and then other things come around it, so it really allowed us to use denims and suedes and gauzes, and those sorts of hard-working fabrics - workwear fabrics - and then contrast them with crepe de chine, beautiful florals and big jewelry.

You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product.

In this [fashion] business you're living in the future a lot of the time.

Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that character to start an exploration of my own consciousness. Really though, any character that you can examine is just an examination of a part of your own consciousness.