When you think of fashion photography, it's a dream. It's like we all want to be those women. We want to wear those dresses.

I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good.

I wanted to feel good about the way I looked. I didn't understand why style had to be sacrificed for sports technology. I found when going to the gym women were wearing their own tees, without the technology. I started to think, does it make you run faster if you wear that terrible color or sweat less if you wear that horrible fabric? And I challenged it, and the answers were not there to why we were being given poor design work. It was something I wanted to bring to women's wardrobes.

There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear.

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.

As a designer I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed. That's why I avoid all animal skins.