I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.

Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.

I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything. I'd have to attribute some of that to my work in the fashion industry - in some obscure way.

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.