Angela Scanlon

“Double denim is a combination that has stood the test of time. Classic and unconventional at once, the workingman's fabric that has infiltrated the world of high fashion.”

“You get out of life what you put into it' was the saying most often heard in my house growing up, and a sentiment that both my parents shared. As a kid, it was slightly terrifying but mostly annoying; the notion that I was solely responsible for my own life.”

“I spend more time per day on my phone than should be legal for any human.”

“When I have a night of fitful brainstorming, I embrace it. I open my notebook and let it all pour out.”

“We want to see 'real' women. Women who represent us, who are the same as us, who look and feel and seem like us. Women who share our problems, our joys and our lives. We are not content anymore with a nameless face no matter how beautiful, a clotheshorse with a vacant stare will not sell anything to us anymore.”

“I like independent boutiques where there are niche labels that can't be found everywhere, and fill the gaps in high street stores like COS, Topshop and Zara. I also love Selfridges for the food hall and incredible designer selection.”

“Lent is funny. I mean it's not hilarious but it's unusual given that people's participation in mass is significantly reduced, yet the old 40 day fast still has a special place in all our hearts.”

“I always use the Calm or Headspace apps - even if it's ten minutes on the Tube.”

“There is a collective rejoicing when Beyonce pictures emerge that show her with a hairy upper lip and some mild acne; Cindy Crawford with cellulite almost breaks the Internet; it's like we need to see these perfect people with their perfect lives unmasked. To know that they're really like us, just maybe a bit luckier.”

“I save images of houses covered in herbs and shrubs and exotic leafy stalks. I imagine a domestic goddess living among the greenery. The type of woman who demands you remove your shoes before entering the 'space.' She wears a kimono.”

“I try to do hair masks once a week.”

“I pitched ideas for fashion stories to magazines for years. And it was often; 'No, no, nope, next,' or worse, just silence.”

“Shoes have always been an issue for me. The more fantastical and ridiculous the better. The brighter, the shinier, the shaggier, the more I love them.”

“Listening to the soundtrack of other people's lives and learning from them is a pretty perfect way to spend hours that are generally written off.”

“I wouldn't get Botox because mainly I think it looks pretty rubbish. You still look your age, just more... Botoxed. A little frozen. Kind of stuck in gear. Shiny. Shocked.”

“We regenerate as we sleep, it's why your skin looks better after a good kip and why you work better after a full eight hours.”

“I've spent time in Austria, France, Italy, America, Australia, India, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.”