British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country.

Touching clothes is just shopping foreplay, but it's changing. After all, you don't need to try a Mercedes to know that you'd like one.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.