But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's unlike anywhere else in the world.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.