A biography for Phoebe Philohasn’t been written yet.
“What I love is this idea of a wardrobe, the idea that we're establishing certain signatures and updating them, that a change in colour or fabric is enough.”
“I try not to intellectualise what I do.”
“My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.”
“I don't know whether that comes from having a family - having something very important at home that needed to be protected.”
“The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.”
“I'm happy to do interviews from time to time, but I don't find them that necessary - and that hasn't seemed to have affected people's understanding of our work.”
“There is absolutely a gap in the market for thirty something women and, the more I look at it, the more I feel there needs to be a sense of ease and choice.”
“I find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I'm a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it's gotta be good; otherwise, what's the point?”
“Things have to sell, of course, but if I don't want to put bags on the runway, we don't put bags on the runway. I have complete creative control.”
“It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.”
“I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.”
“I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.”