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" After selling the business, and the Patrick Cox brand in 2007, I had a three-year non-compete, where I just spent a lot of time hanging all over the world on beaches and having fun. "
Having Fun
Business
World
" Archives can be inspiring but overwhelming. You have to forget them - especially when the whole world has been knocking them off. Everyone shops the same flea markets. "
Forget
Off
Same
" As a designer, you are not only a designer, you are also a celebrity, an entertainer, and a spokesperson that speaks on behalf of the company. So you need to realize that you have to embrace all those sides. "
Need
Embrace
Company
" By the time I came out of college, I was fabulous. "
Fabulous
Came
College
" Copying is a form of self-validation. "
Form
Copying
" Do I miss shoes? I miss the designing, but I don't miss the fashion industry. Those people eat their children. "
Children
Eat
Fashion
" Elizabeth Hurley rocks. She really rocks. "
She
Rocks
Really
" I am a magpie. My eye collects details. "
Details
Am
Eye
" I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres. "
Search
New Things
I Am
" I came to London during what was called the second British invasion. The music was from Britain, the fashion was from Britain, everything was from Britain, so I knew I had to be in Britain. "
Fashion
Knew
London
" I couldn't have asked for a better testimonial than Bob Dylan parting with his own cash for a pair of my shoes. "
Pair
Parting
Better
" I don't eat at home, ever. "
Home
Eat
Ever
" I finished college by July 15th, 1985, and by October 1985, I had a little stand during the trade show which was London Fashion week at the time. My stand was tiny - just 6 square meters in total - and I had my 12 shoes that I designed while in college. "
College
Fashion
Time
" If you use your own name as your business brand, keep in mind that if you lose that brand, you have lost your name. And that is a bit of a problem going forward in life. If you decide to make up a name, and if you have lost that name, then who cares. But when it is your name on the products, and you lose it, that is the game changer. "
Problem
You
Mind
" I have a pop sensibility, which I think comes from all those weekends spent in nightclubs. "
Think
Those
I Think
" I like to be playful; I want people to look at what I do and smile. "
People
Want
Smile
" I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father. "
Father
Lived
Mother
" I love Italy, and that's where I make my own shoes. But the French really do respect designers. Italy is totally different; footwear is an industry. The shoes are all about craft and luxury. French shoes are more about straight lines, and they are way more geometric. "
Luxury
Shoes
Love
" I love talking in lira because, suddenly, everything is in billions. "
Talking
Everything
Because
" I'm addicted to chinos the second weather gets warm enough. "
Addicted
Weather
Warm
" I'm a huge monarchist. "
Huge
" I'm kind of the shoe guy. "
Shoe
Kind
Guy
" I'm not a shoe snob. "
Snob
Shoe
" In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture - the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are much broader. "
Design
Culture
Fashion
" I think a house should reflect the interests and personality of the occupant, but it takes time to gather together the objects one likes around oneself. "
Personality
Think
Time
" It is all about quality of life and being proud of what I do. I need me to be me. "
Me
Proud
Quality
" I used to sock hop to 'Crocodile Rock' and stare at those platform boots on the album cover. "
Used
Crocodile
Rock
" I've learnt a lot about construction and flexibility from my time at Geox. "
Construction
Time
My Time
" I've stayed in enough hotels so I really know what works and what doesn't design-wise. "
Hotels
Enough
Really
" I was never a fashion snob. "
Never
Snob
Fashion
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