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" I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief. "

John Rocha

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Fashion

Vision

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Suits

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

" I'm like a conductor. I come up with ideas, and I get all these people to make great music together. I have a team of really talented assistant designers. I have architects in my office. People I trained from the beginning in menswear, womenswear, and home. I have a great team who know what I want and feel and translate that into beautiful results. "

" As you get older, your skin tone will change, and that means the colours that suit you best change, too. Take a trip to a department store and ask for advice, or simply hold colours close to your face in the mirror, as this should give you a good idea of what works. "

" 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. "

" Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don't. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time. "

" 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. "

" I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

" I always challenge myself to do something better, and people in the industry appreciate that. "

" I want romance; I want people to be happy in their relationships. "

" My dream home would be a fishing lodge in New Zealand. "

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

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Grandmother

" Just because something is trendy doesn't mean it will suit you. "

" I don't want to be an elitist designer. It's no fun just catering for a small group of people. It's against my principles. "

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

" I can speak Cantonese, but I can't speak about fashion - I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews in Chinese I just don't know the right word - it can be very hard to explain things. "

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

" One thing I learned from all my years in business is you really have to work with the experts: you can launch something yourself, but unless you have the expertise and the marketing strategies and machinery behind you, you'll never be successful. "

" 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. "

" I want to challenge myself in new mediums; I want to leave myself open to different things. "

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

" Fabric is the foundation of a collection. "

" I will never see myself as a businessman. I'm a designer. I have to be true to what I believe. "