I spend lots of my life travelling around the world. I always look and see, and that gives me the inspiration for my work.

The good thing about looking through the viewfinder of a film camera is it really helps you look and see. I think one of my best points over the years has been the ability to see. By looking through this little viewfinder, it helps me focus on things.

Because of my busy head, I need a notebook with a pencil. I’ve always got a little orange book in my pocket. I just have so many ideas all the time. My whole collection is done by words and funny little drawings.

People don’t look up enough. It could be an influence just observing something done in bad taste but with something beautiful.

Inspiration is everywhere. It could be taking photographs through a viewfinder, which teaches you to look. It could be finding inspiration in texture, such as a rough wall next to a shiny door, that could be Harris Tweed and silk. It could be a Matisse painting, a movie, often it's an artist. It’s all there if you want it.

One of my collections was inspired by a trip to Chile. There are 16 types of minerals in the Andes mountains, so you get all these different colours coming through. When I showed my photos to my team, they said, “That’s an instant collection!”. It doesn’t always work like that, though.

You can find inspiration in everything. If you can’t, then you’re not looking properly. That means looking, and seeing. It’s all about using your eyes. It’s all there for you, free of charge.

If you look around at the greys, the blues, the rough, the smooth, all these things could inspire you. The problem for so many people is that they pay too much attention to what other people are doing, which you need to do, but also you need to think; ‘that’s what they’re doing, so this is what I’ll do’.