I Find Beauty In The

I Always Wanted To Be A Designer. I Read Books On Fashion From The Age Of 12.

I Find Beauty In Melancholy.

I Am Constantly Trying To Reflect The Way Women Are Treated. It's Hard To Interpret That In Clothes Or In A Show But There's Always An Underlying, Sinister Side To Women's Sexuality In My Work Because Of The Way I Have Seen Women Treated In My Life. Where I Come From, A Woman Met A Man, Had Babies, Moved To Dagenham, Two Up Two Down, Made The Dinner, Went To Bed. That Was My Image Of Women And I Didn't Want That. I Wanted To Get That Out Of My Head.

Having Money Hasn't Changed Me. If Anything It's Made My Life Worse. People Come Up To You Who Knew You Before You Were Famous And Who Didn't Come Up To You Before. I'm A Clever Designer. I Can Do What The Client Wants. But I'm Prepared To Forget About Money If It Affects My Creativity Because, Remember, I Started Off With Nothing. And I Can Do That Again.

I Was Literally 3 Years Old When I Started Drawing. I Did It All My Life, Through Primary School, Secondary School, All My Life. I Always, Always Wanted To Be A Designer. I Read Books On Fashion From The Age Of Twelve. I Followed Designer's Careers. I Knew Giorgio Armani Was A Window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro Was A Tailor.