Fame Should Be Left To

I Think The Idea Of Mixing Luxury And Mass-market Fashion Is Very Modern, Very Now - No One Wears Head-to-toe Designer Anymore.

My Friend George And I Were Walking On The Beach In Norfolk, And There Were Thousands Of [razor-clam] Shells. They Were So Beautiful, I Thought I Had To Do Something With Them. So, We Decided To Make [a Dress] Out Of Them. . . . The Shells Had Outlived Their Usefulness On The Beach, So We Put Them To Another Use On A Dress. Then Erin [o’conner] Came Out And Trashed The Dress, So Their Usefulness Was Over Once Again. Kind Of Like Fashion, Really.

The Turnover Of Fashion Is Just So Quick And So Throwaway, And I Think That Is A Big Part Of The Problem. There Is No Longevity.

When We Put The Antlers On The Model And Then Draped Over It The Lace Embroidery That We Had Made, We Had To Poke Them Through A £2,000 Piece Of Work. But Then It Worked Because It Looks Like She's Rammed The Piece Of Lace With Her Antlers. There's Always Spontaneity. You've Got To Allow For That In My Shows.

Birds In Flight Fascinate Me. I Admire Eagles And Falcons. I’m Inspired By A Feather But Also Its Color, Its Graphics, Its Weightlessness And Its Engineering. It’s So Elaborate. In Fact I Try And Transpose The Beauty Of A Bird To Women.