It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.
I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo.
They always like to put labels on me.
I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.
We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.
I would never wear anything with a logo. That I really find difficult. It's a frustration that I'll find a nice shirt or something and it's got 50 prints of the logo on it - why do they do this?
A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.
You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?