Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind. I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn’t very interesting. So I hid that. I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves – that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.

I’m not like that. I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future. Women are more sure of themselves today. They don’t have to emulate the way men dress. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Fashion should be fun. It shouldn’t be labelled intellectual.