It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate.

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

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.

For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

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.

I confess to being a frustrated musician.