I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.