Phoebe Philo
Phoebe Philo
Phoebe Philo OBEis a British fashion designer. In 2014 she was named by Time Magazine as amongst the world's 100 most influential people...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDesigner
require shops time wants
Everyone wants new things all the time; shops require so much - there has to be consistency.
child guilt imagine mobile neurotic simply spend stomach time transition until work
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.
biggest designer finding incredibly outside time
Time is my biggest luxury. Finding time to do things outside of fashion, which I think for a designer is incredibly important.
came deep time work
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.
expressive fashion feeling playful relationship time
My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.
affected interviews necessary seemed time understanding work
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.
bags
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.
chose quite
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.
tricky trying
It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.
work
I was very, very eager to work. It's just the way I am.
famous fear good innate looked love
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.
human respect
I feel very much that I am a human being, with human limitations, and I need to respect that.
family home whether
I don't know whether that comes from having a family - having something very important at home that needed to be protected.
deciding history job offers stay whether
When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.