Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.
I have a very clear conscience.
I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.
I used to leave my house at 6:30 in the morning, and I would visit 10 shops every Saturday, starting at the furthest shop I'd decided to go to that day, ending up in Oxford Street 12 hours later.
Stand in my lobby at 5:30 P.M., and there is no one who gets out of the lift who is not on a gadget. No one is talking to each other. I get in the lift and say, 'Hello,' and everyone's head is down tapping on a screen.
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'
I don't think there's anyone who can be unaware of the relevance of Kate Moss, the effect that she's had on the fashion industry.
When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.
I could spend my life having meetings, a meeting to have another meeting, a hundred meetings to have another thousand meetings. It's not what I'm about. I don't want to have to get in a queue; that's not how I like to live.
