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 don't know if I'm all that famous. When I first started my idea of what a career in fashion would look like is very different to the reality now.

The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself.

Grace! It's Christmas for goodness sake! Think about the baby Jesus. Up in that tower letting his hair down, so that the three wise men could climb up and spin the dreidel and see if there's six more weeks of winter!

I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny.

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.

Body-con dresses have never been something I've been into.