When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.

I'm not such a public person.

I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!