CREATING
A PERSONAL
STYLE IS
ABOUT STAYING
TRUE TO
WHO YOU
ARE

CREATING A PERSONAL
STYLE IS A BOUT

STAYING TRUE TO
WHO YOU ARE

The best thing about my job is it’s basically just shopping.

It’s really social and engaging, working with clients, and I love it when I reach the stage in a relationship where I can essentially channel that person when I’m selecting clothes for them.

You can never get bored, working in fashion.

If you hate a particular trend, there’s another one along in two minutes. And everything is totally refreshed every six months; it just keeps moving.

When I watch one of my clients on the red carpet, all I can think is: ‘Don’t trip up.’

So much work goes into creating an individual look that I don’t really get to sit back and enjoy the moment. I don’t soak it up until about six months later, when I can look back and think, ‘Wow, that was amazing.’

The people in my life would tell you that I’m a planning freak.

I’m the pre-activity planning queen. Let’s have a sheet and tick things off, let’s put more stuff on it just to tick it off… I won’t leave the house without three different highlighters for all my lists.

I’m always thinking about what everyone else is wearing, so my own look has to be easy and simple.

I call it the Steve Jobs approach: start with a base layer, then add to it with a jacket or a coat. Outfits build themselves if you organise your clothes in this way.

I am a flat-shoes girl, as I’m always on my feet and running about.

But for shoots, I put my clients in heels – the right pair makes a woman feel strong and elevated.

THE PEOPLE
IN MY LIFE
WOULD
TELL YOU
THAT I’M A
PLANNING
FREAK

THE  PEOPLE IN MY

LIFE WOULD TELL

YOU THAT I’M A
PLANNING FREAK

Creating a personal style is about staying true to who you are.

Start by finding your default ‘thing’ – essentially, the influences that are big for you. So, if you’re a little bit rock, you should communicate that in what you wear. You don’t want to wear anything that doesn’t feel like ‘you’, or you’ll feel like a cat dressed up as dog!

Mornings are my key time – I like to get up and at it early.

I have to see what’s going on in the garden and the house before I begin work and I can’t work past 9pm – my body says, ‘That’s enough; we’ve had it.’

It’s helpful to have something that’s just about you.

You have to carve out that time for yourself. For me, it’s about my yoga practice. I don’t have a lot of guilty pleasures, but I do drink way too much coffee.

Anybody else’s opinion of you is their own business.

Get on, move on – get over it.

The thing I would tell my teenage self is to hang in there as everything passes.

When things aren’t great, put one foot in front of the other and you’ll get there.

I’m a carpe diem person: see it, do it, action it.

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