I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do.
The first thing I do in the morning is have an espresso - straight up - and read the papers. I like 'The Independent,' 'The Times,' and the 'Financial Times.'
I'm not the best at getting myself breakfast, but if I do, I'll normally have toast and marmalade.
Whether I'm at home in London or in Paris for Loewe, I always like to walk to work.
I could binge-eat cheese - I love any blue cheese. Make it strong; make it deadly.
I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, 'Wow!' It's a skill that I don't have, but I can understand the merit of it.
I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.
If you're going to collect things because you think they have value, then don't collect. For me, you have to be obsessed, and there has to be something educational.
I think ceramics are so amazing because they're incredibly educational - you can buy something made in the 14th century, and it looks like it was made yesterday. There's something to be learned there, and ceramics can tell you the history of the time because they're functional vessels, ultimately.
The problem with me and TV shows is once I start watching them, I have to watch them all because I'm so impatient. I need the entire series to be on TV, and then I'll sit all day and watch the entire thing. So I did that with 'Homeland,' and I did that with 'Veep.'
To restart a brand, you have to make people forget what it was.
I love the immediacy of Instagram. My feed really is my train of thought. If I'm really excited about something, I'll just put it up.
I didn't reinvent clothing; I reinvented the edit.
Work is an addiction. I've always done too much. It's in my nature.
I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process.
I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating.
I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.
I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods.
For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.
My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.
