I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

You can't have style if you don't have substance.

I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.