'My life is pretty simple. I wake up - I'm not easy to wake up - and I like to eat breakfast. I love to eat. I like to do my own grocery shopping, pick my own fruit. These are things that ground me. If I'm not working I go to the gym. I go to recovery meetings. I do errands, regular things.
Today, for instance, I went to the market in Shanghai then went to the airport [to fly to Hong Kong]. I sleep on planes, thank God. I got off the plane and went shopping right away [laughs]. Usually in modelling your day is not going to be 9 to 5. I finish when the photographer or the outfits are finished.
Nowadays I need my sleep. There used to be a time when I could get away with little sleep but not any more. On a standard day, I go to bed around 1am. During the planning of my Fashion For Relief show [on September 20] in London, I think I slept only two or three hours a night because I was so nervous.
This year's Fashion For Relief was to help the flood victims in England. There was GBP3 billion (HK$47.4 billion) worth of damage and it's going to take at least 18 months for these people to get back to their normal lives. I've been in the fashion world for 21 years and I thought, 'What can I do?' I did an event in New York for Hurricane Katrina, so I thought we could do one in London. It was amazing. We had footballers, actresses, aristocrats and people from all walks of life. Sting came as a surprise.
The atmosphere was not like a regular show, because the public can buy tickets to Fashion For Relief. Normally, it's only VIPs and fashion editors who go to shows, but the public, they clap like it's a concert, the way shows used to be when Gianni Versace was alive. Then we auction all the clothes on eBay.
Fashion For Relief can be anywhere in the world.