So describe the aesthetics of your Spring/Summer collection ‘Artificial Gracefulness’. What are the key pieces form this collection?
Rather than stating a “key piece”, the key look is man made or controlled beauty. Giving people a chance to manipulate the garment rather than be picked by garment. Often people find that the clothes become them; with my range you won’t have this problem.

Describe a typical day for yourself.
I wake up 8 o'clock sharp. Have my instant coffee and cigarette. I go around picking up things and dropping off stuff at my sampling machinists, and work till dinner. Then I sleep, but lately I’ve been working quite rigorously and late, and am enjoying every minute of it.



There is a sense of nonchalance to the way your clothes can be worn, where does this idea come from?
“Let it be what it is” is a mantra that I believe in when it comes to approaching my design aesthetic, but always keeping in mind that there is a deliberate and controlled way to create these pieces. I don’t control the fabric as such. I design, and the fabric itself does the job. Sometimes it’s a surprise what the fabric does to the form – I find the beauty in the nature of gravity.