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.

Strength on its own in a woman is quite abrasive and not terribly attractive all the time.

I personally love sportswear, and love using it in high fashion.

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.

If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.

Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.