GEORGINA CHAPMAN

I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.

I'm a designer, not a businesswoman.

We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

I think it's important for whatever you are doing, even if it's a collection, to seek outside advice. If your world becomes too insular, it limits your creativity.

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

I went camping in the Maasai Mara and we moved site every night. I had no idea how spectacular it would be, how removed from ordinary life, or how many animals we would see.

My family is my number one priority.

It's good to talk to people and get ideas.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived in Vietnam, which wasn't great, the Red Sea, which was incredible and reasonably priced, and then the Maldives, which is like being submerged in an aquarium.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time. I was also just excited to have the chance to direct, which I may never get to do again.

If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.

When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

I love vintage and prints.

I read a lot of thrillers because they're easy reading and I'm not a great flier. They take my head out of it. I like the fast pace and that you can't put them down.

I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.

New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.

I love children. I've always loved children.