My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

You never know. Down the road you can do a lot of product categories. But I think you really have to build your core first and for people to know you and respect you for that.

My daughter is my passion and my life.

There's this sort of migration west at the moment, a sort of energy that's definitely moving to LA.

I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.