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I\u2019m a perfectionist, but up to a point: I know when there\u2019s no hope, when it\u2019s too late and then I just leave it and walk away. It\u2019s only fashion. It\u2019s not like it\u2019s fucking cancer, is it? <\/p>\n
My goal is to not be mediocre. To not become such a business machine that it\u2019s only about a pair of slacks.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m an emotional retard. I cried the other night watching a young boy singing on that TV show Britain\u2019s Got Talent. He believed in what he was doing so much and was getting picked on at school. He got really upset because he didn\u2019t win. <\/p>\n
The earliest memory I have is of being at Pontins holiday camp in Camber Sands. It was 1977 and there was a big swarm of ladybirds on the beach. They went in everyone\u2019s mouths. It was really weird. I\u2019ve been scared of ladybirds ever since. <\/p>\n
My first crush was some blonde boy on a campsite in Cornwall. He was there with his brother. It was an innocent crush \u2013 the best kind \u2013 not a three-way. I was seven years old and was too afraid to speak to him. I doubt he would have lived up to my fantasy anyway.<\/p>\n
I got where I am today by relying on my skill, not my personality. I\u2019ve never been someone to cheese-ball my way to the top. That can get you there but it won\u2019t keep you there. You can have the gift of the gab but if your work doesn\u2019t speak volumes, then you\u2019re not going to stay around for long. <\/p>\n
My mum keeps me grounded. She always calls me up and says, \u201cI haven\u2019t seen much of your work in the papers recently. You\u2019re not doing so well, are you?\u201d I send her all my press clippings and she\u2019ll say, \u201cI didn\u2019t like that dress very much\u2026 What\u2019s going on with those shoes with the square front?\u201d It\u2019s our biggest seller mum! \u201cWell, I wouldn\u2019t wear them.\u201d <\/p>\n
I get bored easily. I have the attention span of an ant. Always have had. I spent more time in the coffee shop than at school. The only school activity I enjoyed was doing synchronised swimming with 40 other girls. I like diving now \u2013 I\u2019m a water-baby really. <\/p>\n
Fashion can sometimes get monotonous because you feel like you\u2019re on a treadmill and have to keep churning out this shit. To get inspired I become aware of everything around me: a billboard, a pattern or a news report. I stay alert and that\u2019s when it comes. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t panic because even if it leaves me just a week to do a collection, that\u2019s enough. I just have to keep looking and it\u2019ll come. It\u2019s always worked. <\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think I can live in England forever because the violence is too much. There\u2019s a lot of knife crime and England seems to be falling apart a bit at the moment. There\u2019s too much of a divide between rich and poor \u2013 it\u2019s getting more like South America. Right now the government is doing a shit job of unifying the country.<\/p>\n
I tried to live abroad a couple of years ago but it only lasted two weeks. I moved to New York and it was fucking awful. I sorted out a whole office there and moved everything but after a few days thought, \u201cWhat am I doing here? It\u2019s evil!\u201d <\/p>\n
I like making mistakes even if it means getting bad reviews. If you don\u2019t make mistakes then nothing new can come. I like people around me at work to make their own mistakes as well, but only once. I don\u2019t have the time to give them more than that because it\u2019s all done under my name. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been a Buddhist for seven years. I don\u2019t see Buddhism as a religion; It\u2019s a way of life. It\u2019s just there all the time: in the way I treat everyone from a receptionist to a CEO. I love what Buddhism stands for but I don\u2019t really want to come back as a slug! <\/p>\n
My biggest regret is not finding compassion earlier in life. But I don\u2019t think I could have made head or tail of it when I was younger. The more I work and the bigger my company gets, the more compassion I need because I\u2019m dealing with a lot of people\u2019s personalities. But I\u2019m not a fucking martyr. <\/p>\n
Incompetence makes me angry. If I\u2019ve asked someone for something and they come back and offer me something different that just fucking freaks me out. It means they went down the easiest route. To me everything is about editing. You start off major and then you edit it down to something acceptable. Go for the maximum. <\/p>\n
I wouldn\u2019t want to be anyone else. Everyone comes with their problems and I\u2019ve got enough of my own. And I wouldn\u2019t do anything differently because I learnt from it all. I had to fight to study at Central St. Martins because my father, who was a cab driver, didn\u2019t understand fashion. It\u2019s been an education for him and for me. It makes me respect what I\u2019ve achieved.<\/p>\n
I love getting older. You start to reflect on the stupid things in your past and you never want to go back, only forward. I\u2019m not scared of aging \u2013 I think you become wiser and more distinguished. Now I\u2019m 39 years old I can handle situations that 10 years ago would have made me kick off. The oik and the hooligan is no more, the man is now. <\/p>\n
Photography: Tom Allen
\nFashion: Anthony Unwin
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