Phoebe Philo quotes:

Until you go through with it yourself, you simply can't imagine it. But it is the transition of going back to work and the guilt of how much time you spend with your child that's hard. I worry about not getting back in time for bath-time. I am not a neurotic person at all, but every time the mobile rings, my stomach leaps.

I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.

What I love is this idea of a wardrobe, the idea that we're establishing certain signatures and updating them, that a change in colour or fabric is enough.

Build a wardrobe rather than focusing on trends.

I decided to work on things that obsess women because women can't resist things like lace, sequins, animal prints and python.

My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.

I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.

The chicest thing is when you don't exist on Google.

My favourite eras for styles are still the 70s and 40s, and there will be a few iconic pieces to build the wardrobe around, like there were at Chloe, but I want there to be a feel of mix-and-match.

I feel very much that I am a human being, with human limitations, and I need to respect that.

I want to show my personality through my designs and stay pretty anonymous outside the industry.

Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.

We're in the business of luxury and there's nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

I'm happy to do interviews from time to time, but I don't find them that necessary - and that hasn't seemed to have affected people's understanding of our work.

I don't know whether that comes from having a family - having something very important at home that needed to be protected.

My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.

Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important.

Things have to sell, of course, but if I don't want to put bags on the runway, we don't put bags on the runway. I have complete creative control.

I'm just not very interested in decoration.

Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.

I just have to be very, very organised.

To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in