I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

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.

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.