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

I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson.

Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we've moved the store to the desk. Now though, she's is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she's tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online.

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.

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.

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