I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better'?

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.

I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.