I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

The fashion cycle is outdated.

I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.

Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.

I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

Anna Wintour has guided me.

The Internet is a gift to fashion.

Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.

In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.

Women just love to shop.

We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

I cry at anything remotely touching - smile at me warmly and I'm off... television also does it, everything from 'X-Factor' to cereal commercials. I cry when I am tired. I also cry when I laugh.

You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.

We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'

Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.