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" I can tell you every element of every single look from each collection - one to 30 - without looking at a picture: my label is all done by me. "

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" My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am. "

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" I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground. "

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" It is hard to have a fashion business in any country, but even more difficult in Ireland. "

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" I believe that IT is the way forward. Every other industry utilises IT, and I feel that fashion needs to use it more extensively to move forward. "

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" My life is about family and friends as well as work. "

" I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it. "

" As I get older and older, people like my work more and more. "

" I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" Fashion is like a four-legged table: you need a good designer, a very good business manager, a good manufacturer, and a very good distributor. Without all the legs, table collapses. "

" It might be a selfish choice, but I find it quite difficult to design for individuals and prefer the distance of larger schemes. It's the same reason why, as a designer, I don't do wedding dresses. "

" I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg. "

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" Fabric is the foundation of a collection. "

" There was the Cultural Revolution just over the border, and Hong Kong felt quite dodgy. My younger brother's wife actually swam from China to Hong Kong to escape. I realised in the '60s that I had to get out. "

" My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool. "

" My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis. "