Unconditional

Designer name: Philip Stephens

Origin: South Manchester, Cheshire

Design signatures: “Relaxed, refined, understated, sensual. Drape against structure.”

How would you describe your ideal client? “Confident, open to new ideas but still with their own sense of style.”

Career highlight: “Maybe it's yet to come?”

Three spring/summer 2012 inspirations: “Collaborations with Una Burke, Dimitris Theocharis and Martha Violante.”

What’s next for your brand? “We are refining everything.”

Who are your design heroes? “Claude Montana, Halston, Giorgio Armani, Anouska Hempel and Tadao Ando.”

What’s your favourite cultural hotspot in the capital? “Right now, it’s got to be Jodie Harsh’s ‘Circus’ at Café de Paris.”

In five years’ time I will be… “Different but exactly the same.”