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When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.

I think when you wear so many hats, be it of a mom or a working woman, you need to feel good and look good as well.

I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.

I take my hat off to working mums and especially single working mums. I honestly don't know how they do it.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.