People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.

Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.