Peter Pilotto

Designer names: Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos

Origin: Pilotto is half-Austrian, half-Italian and De Vos is half-Belgian, half-Peruvian.

Career highlight: “Winning the Best Emerging Talent Award at the British Fashion Awards in 2009 was an honour for the brand.”

Design background: The designers met whilst studying at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the year 2000.

Design signatures: Peter Pilotto's vision of womenswear embraces both new and classic perspectives on elegance. Otherworldly prints combine with soft, sculptural shapes to form the handwriting of the design duo, something which evolves and is explored each season as opposed to being reactionary.

How would you describe the Peter Pilotto woman? “She is beyond pure classification of age or style, just like the clothes themselves.”

Trademark style: “Thought-through print placements.”

Name three things that are inspiring you for autumn/winter 2011: “Traditional Japanese ceramics, Poiret and Martino Gamper's chair compositions.”

What’s next for your brand? “Taking the right steps for the new decade.”

What music is playing in your studio this season? “Eminem.”