“Ever since I was little I really loved boyish clothes – I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going.”

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908… his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children – in the backroom all together – and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.