PS: Do you think that confidence comes from being an artist first and a designer second?
PC: When I started this off — like a year-and-a-half, two years ago when I made my first collection — I very much was like, "I am an artist." The soul of the brand is that, thinking like an artist and not necessarily conforming. I've never been a conformist. I've always sort of done my own thing and led my own way. Even when I'm faced with challenges now, more corporate things, it's like, how do I keep my integrity? Life is about compromise, and you have to compromise to an extent, but I have to maintain that integrity.
