I have always been coming to Australia since I was young to meet my hero, Bill Moyes. He was from Bronte, Sydney. In the 60s, he built the first hang gliders with another Aussie, John Dickenson, using NASA technology. Bill was my reference, my God. He is 90 years old this year. I have had a lot of fun with the Moyes family over the years. I remember flying hang gliders off the back of a boat in Lake Como in Italy with Bill and his son, Steve. My other passion has always been designing fabrics. One day a customer, a very famous retailer, probably the biggest in the world, told me ‘I don’t want to copy from you anymore’. I knew that he was copying my fabrics, and he was so honest by telling me. He said to me, ‘Why don’t you copy yourself?’ That was in 1998, the year in which I told my father ‘Either you retire or continue the company without me.’ Our family company Artextil was one of the most creative worldwide mills, but we were losing money. It was so difficult. So, my father retired, and I closed the industrial unit to start producing in Asia. I paid nearly 300 workers and opened a design studio, United Weavers.