Liz Collins: I'm inspired by many, many things, ranging from Gothic novels to Hieronymus Bosch (A Flemish painter of the late 15th Century; a forerunner of the surrealist movement  --Gina) to Leigh Bowery (a leading radical London performance artist for 20 years until he died of AIDS --Gina) to Botticelli (A Florentine Renaissance painter; a great colorist and master of rhythmic line --Gina). A lot of my inspirations are not fashion....

Gina Pia Cooper: I didn't think they were by looking at your stuff.

Liz Collins: No. Nature. That's the main one. Whether it's trees or -- well, I guess since I've been doing this knitwear, I've really been inspired by the human body. Kind of thinking about it. Or thinking about clothes as a metaphor. It's about poetry and thinking of turning oneself inside-out. Like, what would you look like on the inside? Or a dress that's the inside of you on the outside, but mixed with romantic and spiritual ideas and transformation. Transformative dress. I think about that. Like, putting something on and becoming someone else or becoming more yourself or more connected to yourself.

Gina Pia Cooper: You have also mentioned sea creatures -- which ones?

Liz Collins: Jellyfish. You know, it's funny, I don't really look at pictures of jellyfish, but they're in the back of my mind. Because they're so strange and magical and full of these weird colors. I find in nature the color combinations are so unexpected a lot of the time. Like the movie Microcosmos. There were moments in that movie where I was just drooling because of the colors, like a field of green with gray and some little hot pink butterfly. Those kinds of things -- that's enough to inspire me. There are just so many things that drive me in my work. I work in a style that I've started falling into. Like, instead of making a drawing of a garment, and then picking out the colors, making the patterns, and then executing it, I'll start with the fabric, and I knit swatches or I play....