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.

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead animal in it. ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary.

At the end of the day I separate things; my life is my life and my work is my work.

I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up.

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.