Don't worry about what's cool and what's not cool. Authenticity is what's cool.

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

One of my goals and dreams is to work in film in the future.

At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design.

I went through the workroom at Central Saint Martins in London, which is the most competitive workroom of a design school in the world. Very high creativity, very conceptual, very international, age-diverse and cutthroat - people who have master degrees reapplying into a foundation there is just wild to me to launch their careers.

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.