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I never had a massive desire to buy clothes. I liked to customise the clothes I already had or was given when I was younger. If I didn't like them that much, I made them how I wanted them to be.

It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.

Growing up, I always wanted a bedroom of my own.

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

When I was young, clothes were really just about what fit, because Ashley and I were so tiny. So I understood fit before I understood style.

When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's.

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

A lot of my collections are informed by nostalgia. I think that's because I loved clothes early on. I remember, at maybe age five, being concerned about what I wore, right down to the underwear.

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.