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

I was first drawn to active wear because I enjoy working out, and it's very important in this day in age. I really felt women were getting the tail end of the design in active wear; not getting the technology or design we deserved. It was reserved for men. We were getting the leftover work from the sports design houses.

I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy.

It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.

I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost.

People work better when they are afforded to be themselves

I don't plan massively in advance.