I Don't Know Why My Shoes Are

I Think I Make Shoes Quite Okay.

Peter Hinwood Found All These Old Pictures - Polaroids - And When I Saw Them, I Just Didn't Believe That The Person In Them Was Connected With Me. I Was In A Hotel Room With One Of Those Front-and-back Mirrors, And I Thought, Who The Hell Is That? I Used To Be Thin As A Rake. I Used To Have The Nice-shaped Pecs. It's Sad. No, It's Not Sad, It's The Reality, And I've Accepted This Now.

The Most Tragic Moment Of My Life Was The First Show I Ever Designed For. I Had Been Asked To Make Shoes For Ossie Clark's Show In The Early '70s. I Was So Inexperienced That I Didn't Put The Steel In The Heels Of The Shoes, Which Is Required To Support The Shoe And The Wearer. So The Girls Came Out Walking Very Strangely In These Rubber, Bendy High-heeled Shoes I Had Made. I Thought 'oh Dear God! This Is The End Of Me.' But After The Show, Even David Hockney And Cecil Beaton Said To Me 'it Was So Interesting That The Girls Were Moving In Such A Different Way.'

I Thought Victoria Beckham Was Going To Be One Of Those Pop Girls, But She's Absolutely The Complete Opposite. She's A Working Girl. She Knows What She Wants. And When She Doesn't Know, She Really Prepares Herself. I Love This Working Type Of Women. And She's A Girl From - I Don't Even Know Where She's From.

I'm Totally Twisted. Instead Of, "oh God, I Don't Have Platforms - They Won't Like Me," I Was Much More, "i'm Doing What I'm Doing, And If You Don't Want To Buy It, Then Don't Buy, But That's Just What I'm Gonna Do." It Gave Me Strength. It Worked For Me.