September 3, 2019
Stanley Kubrick Pink
There’s nothing quite so exciting as hearing a costume designer say that Stanley loved your pink dress…” ...
January 31, 2020
Royal Purple for Dame Joan
When I was asked in 2005 if I’d make a gala gown for Joan Collins in the Footballers Wives TV series, it was a no-brainer....
September 1, 2018
Auntie Jibby?
I must have been watching re-runs of Auntie Mame when we started planning this shoot with Jibby Beane in 1998....
June 22, 2018
Darcey Bussell Photographed by Laurie Lewis
Darcey is photographed amongst the regilded angels at the top of the Albert Memorial during its renovation by English Heritage in 1998...
One of the mysteries of British life is that Fenella Fielding should have drifted into obscurity rather than being celebrated...
I was keen to see how somebody with a reputation of being so nice cracked the whip and got his students to knuckle down...
November 4, 2017
The Best Gift: a Stephen Webster ring
I am painfully aware that you have to have f**k off fists like a gangster to wear anything larger than a signet ring on your smallest finger...
October 4, 2016
Lilac trees in the heart of town
Nottingham lace draped tightly to accentuate the Windsor curves; demure Edwardian style with just a tiny hint of a Ripper Street landlady....
October 7, 2014
28 Sackville Street
An oasis of peace and tranquility away from the hustle and bustle of Piccadilly...
June 7, 2015
Constructing Couture
Looking back now I gasp at the eye watering task of several days build for one photo shoot...
Pie-crust ruffles at the neck – a look that can only be carried off if you have a figure and face like Audrey Hepburn, Leslie Caron – or Margot...
Her name conjures up something intensely feminine – you can almost hear the rustling of underskirts as you say it....