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" 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. "

John Rocha

Beautiful

Home

" 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. "

" To create a beautiful thing with unlimited money is easy! "

" It was a very, very happy childhood, but I always knew I wanted to see the world. "

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

John Rocha

People

" My family was quite poor, and the NHS was recruiting people from abroad to do psychiatric nursing. It was the only hope I had to leave Hong Kong. "

" During fashion week, I dream about fashion; afterwards, I dream about fishing. After fashion week, I always go fishing to wind down. "

" A woman can look incredibly sexy in a black suit. "

" I love my black shirts; I have usually 14 of them at any one time. "

" 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. "

" I'm interested in beauty more than anything else. "

" The day I feel my clothes are no longer relevant, I will be happy to step down. "

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

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

" Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there's a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful. "

John Rocha

City

Architecture

" I think natural fibers look better over time. The more you wear them, they look even better. "

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

" I dress pop stars, and I dress my doctor. It's about attitude. I do what I love, and I'm lucky to do it. It's a long way from Hong Kong. "

" Fabric is the foundation of a collection. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My homes are similar in style because the same design principles run through all areas of my work. "

" At primary school, we would pick up plastic petals on the way home to make flowers. Now you might call it child labour, but we did it for pocket money. "

" Fashion is instant - after six months, it disappears, and you have to start again. That's the nature of it. "

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

" If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong, Chinese mother, Portuguese father from Macao, lived in Europe most of my life. "

" I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them. "

John Rocha

Some People

Work

" I think, as a designer, what you have to do is challenge yourself to do what you do, but better. "

" 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. "