Body-con dresses have never been something I've been into.
Well there are a lot of things I like to eat but at this time of year I'm finding I'm making fig and chèvre salad at least once a week and that's a combo that's hard to beat.
I don't know if I'm all that famous. When I first started my idea of what a career in fashion would look like is very different to the reality now.
The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself.
Virtually the second I get home, I change into my "home" clothes - yoga pants and a T-shirt.
Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that character to start an exploration of my own consciousness. Really though, any character that you can examine is just an examination of a part of your own consciousness.
I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try.
I loved the idea that people dressed up to go to the gardens. Our work always has a utility point of view at its heartbeat and then other things come around it, so it really allowed us to use denims and suedes and gauzes, and those sorts of hard-working fabrics - workwear fabrics - and then contrast them with crepe de chine, beautiful florals and big jewelry.
You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product.
The main thing [of social media] is it allows us to speak directly with our fans and customers, getting that immediate feedback, that conversation; that's what I love. It means that no matter what we are saying, if it's big or small we have a way of saying it. People connect with that.
I have my name down for the Apple Watch and yoga. I know it's a cliché but I need that antidote, it helps with everything.
