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My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's.

My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn't let me skip school for it, so I missed half of the shoot. When we got there, we realized Bruce Weber was the photographer; we knew we had made a mistake!

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center.

In L.A., I did a lot of vintage flea market dresses and Doc Martens.

When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

I get quite excited about things other people have worn. I went through a phase as a student when I wore a lot of 1940s tea dresses.

My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.