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DESCRIBE WHAT YOU'RE WEARING: It's a dress by Gareth Pugh from his second catwalk collection. He's multi-faceted and the most interesting dress designer to come out of the UK for a while. The platform shoes are made to my own design. The gloves are also by Pugh, with rings from a jeweller in LA - I have a thing about armour. The earrings are 1920s.
WHO OR WHAT INSPIRES YOU WHEN IT COMES TO FASHION?: I love white tie, and precise clean cuts. Menswear really inspires me and I love working with tailors. I think Obama is terribly elegant, with his shooting cuffs - shooting cuffs are my thing. I am also inspired by designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Balenciaga, Schiaparelli and Anthony Price. Philip Treacy inspires me, as do old Hollywood and Star Wars.
WHAT IS YOUR MOST TREASURED ITEM?: A very beautiful Balenciaga coat in cherry red duchesse satin with pink interior. I really love my bits and piece of Chanel, a gold sequin coat from the 1920s and my Philip Treacy hats. I love feathers, rose-cut diamonds and old cufflinks.
DO YOU HAVE PET HATES ? I hate trainers and shell suits, and I am not good on prints. I like things to look neat and tidy and I hate too many logos. I don't do floaty stuff much.
HAVE YOU ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN FASHION? Yes, since I was a child. I remember at school making trousers from plastic binliners - I have obviously moved on! I think fashion has always been a kind of protection, a form of self-expression, and to me it's about proportions and being able to reinvent the way your body looks. I try to inhabit my clothes.
DID YOUR MOTHER'S STYLE INFLUENCE YOU? Yes, my mother was Suzanne Lisney, so she was part Irish, but more French, and she dressed in a French way and we were often in France. The English tend to be more individual.
DO YOU HAVE FAVOURITE SHOPS? I love Colette in Paris, and tiny places in New York. In London, the Dover Street Market and Virginia Antiques. In Paris I also like Azzedine Alaia, and in LA, Maxfield and Opening Ceremony. I used to like shopping more than I do now.
DO YOU ALWAYS WEAR SUCH HIGH HEELS? I always wanted to be tall, and I shrink when I take off my shoes. I have always had my shoes made to my own design and I wear flats only at the gym. Louboutin made me a pair of shoes out of a Guinness can, but I haven't worn them for years.
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU TO DRESS UP? About 10 minutes. I do my own hair and as long as I have a decent manicure, clean hair and two or three favourite things, then I get myself together very quickly. It's easy once you have the same black and white base. Otherwise it takes me hours.
WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON AT THE MOMENT? I am working with Anthony Price on a collection of shirts, jackets and also dresses - versions of what I design for myself. I am also working on a limited edition scent with Comme des Garçons. I have always made my own scent and I mix up my stuff in a household way, but this was an extraordinary experience. It's the Proustian idea of smell, and scents that take me back to my childhood in Spain.