It is very exciting for the designers that she is coming.

People associated the clothes with the kind of girl she is: a young, London girl about town.

You can't manufacture a buzz; it has to come from the work. But it also comes from confidence, and things like changing the dates [of the week] and changes within the British Fashion Council will give everyone more confidence.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

I've always been a bad flyer, but I don't let it get in the way of travelling. I love stepping off the plane and feeling the heat and the foreign smell of being somewhere different.

We spoke no German, nor ate any German foods.