Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.

The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

The main challenge is technology and that's something I really push and work closely with Adidas on. They're real leaders in sports performance; always trying to push that further and further and get the best technology they can. That takes time and has rigorous testing, it's very laborious, but it's also very rewarding. You get to work with fantastic athletes, and that's a fantastic thing that has nothing to do with my day job in ready-to-wear.

Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just can't tell that they are, and they are. My mum taught me to have a soul.

I think it's very wrong to have the mass murder, every single day, of millions of animals.

We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.