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.

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.

It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

Whether you eat meat of not, you can be part of this decision to limit the meat industry destroying our planet's resources.

I loved all those Doris Day visuals of her being a tomboy and then changing into this gorgeous girl in a ballgown.

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.