I have my fashion empire to build.

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

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

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

I have my fashion empire to build.

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

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.