The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

What I hate is leather leggings and an ankle boot. I hate the line.

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.

Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.

It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.