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

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.

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

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.

Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

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.

I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.