I love what I do and feel really lucky to still love what I do - I want to get out of bed and go to work at least three out of five days a week! My fear is it ends up any less than three days. But design-wise, I've still got an appetite, a lot more I want to say with my work - the story is not nearly complete!

For me style has something to do with your inner attitude towards clothes and the awareness what sits well on yourself.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress!

I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.

I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

I've dipped my toe into the beauty world and I'd like to keep it there!