Premal Patel

NAME: Premal Patel

AGE: 27


POSITION
Design director at Premonition

SALARY
Underpaid and overworked

MY CHILDHOOD DREAM JOB
To be a social worker

MY FIRST JOB
Assistant designer at Lonsdale

MY BIG BREAK
Attaining a stockist in New York

MY BIGGEST RISK
Putting all my eggs in one basket, starting Premonition, with no experience of running a business

MY PROUDEST MOMENT
Seeing three guys wearing the same shirt of mine in the same bar

MY BIGGEST MISTAKE/REGRET
Not doing a business course

MY MENTOR
My mother - the woman has balls!

IF I COULD DO IT OVER
I'd travel around the world and start my business when I was 30

IF I WASN'T IN FASHION I'D BE
A drop kick that would get kicked to the kerb

MY IDEA THAT NEVER TOOK OFF
Globalisation

IN MY SPARE TIME I
Sweat my guts out at yoga

PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED TO KNOW I
Play the pokies religiously. I call it the karma machine - if you've been good that day you win, if you haven't you know about it and you walk out with empty pockets

I WANT MY EPITAPH TO SAY
"Miss Jackson if you're nasty . . ."