Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Fashion designer who replaced Carl Lagerfeld at Chloe, created sportswear for Team GB, champions sustainable cruelty-free style.
On the island
Eight records
The keepsakes
The book
Paul McCartney
I've struggled with the book... But the book I chose in the end was a book that my dad wrote... called Japanese Jailbird... I find that in itself very beautiful, and I just think it makes me remember family, it would make me also remember freedom.
The luxury
This is a charm bracelet that my husband gave to me many years ago when we got engaged actually... every single charm on it is a memory and a moment in our relationship together... every single thing on there is something I can reflect on with happiness.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:58How is what you're wearing today influencing how you're feeling?
Ah. Well, I'm wearing a jumpsuit, and they always make me feel quite confident, I have to say.
Presenter asks
5:55As consumers, what would be your advice as to how we can best negotiate the disposability that seems routine in fashion?
I think it's not only fashion, it's the world we live in. I think be conscious in your consumption, I guess is all I can say. … Just being accountable and asking questions and trying to make investments, I think, is a good idea. You know, instead of spending X amount on ten things, maybe spend that X amount on one thing that will last you longer, that will have more meaning to you.
Presenter asks
7:07Why are there so few women at the very top of fashion design?
That's a historical one. I think that, you know, when I came into fashion it was even less probably. I think it was always that idea that the men in the boardroom chose the men in the design room, possibly, and and maybe historically women felt comfortable with men dressing them. … There are very few of us, not enough of us. I've always said that behind every great man there are many, many, many great women.
Presenter asks
11:21What are your earliest memories of life at home?
just love and energy and Just really tight family. You know, we grew up in the countryside, really. We moved from London when I was about five. And we literally moved to a round house in the middle of the forest with two bedrooms in the roof. So there were four of us kids. A lot of my memories are sibling related. But a lot of travel and a lot of life experiences.
Presenter asks
19:51What do you make of your parents' decision to send you to comprehensive school, now that you're a parent yourself?
I think it was an amazing Privilege to go to a comprehensive school for me personally. It, um, I think it's shaped a lot of sort of who I am and how I look at things. … it worked for us. We went to the local comp and it worked for us and it's not what, you know, my kids don't. So I can't sit and say that I have an issue with either way of educating people.
Presenter asks
39:11What's the hardest thing about doing your job, your husband's job, and having four children?
I think the hardest thing is switching off leaving the work out of the building when we're with our family. Can you do that? Yeah, we make sure we do it. It's not effortless. And I think we both really love what we do. And it's creative. We're allowed to be creative so that process comes into the creative sort of side of life. In parenting as well.
“You know, he always jokes that he literally can't get arrested. You know, he'd sit and pick up a guitar and be jamming out and be like, Dad, shut up I'm gonna watch Telly You know, he was always like, God, I can people would die to hear me play and my children are telling me to shut up.”
“I would go at a weekend I'd be hanging out with, I don't know, Peter Gabriel or, you know, John Lennon, and then I'd go back to school on Monday and I would not tell a living soul.”
“It's never going to change for me. It's in my DNA. And actually, it's the one thing I think that makes my fashion brand modern and relevant and current. And I think it's the one thing that makes the others not.”
“I think the the courage you have to have to be the wife of a beetle and to try and save animals unapologetically and to not wear a load of makeup and to not, you know, compromise. It's extraordinary. I think that those are my biggest lessons that she gave me, even indirectly. And she got a lot of stick. She wasn't conventional. She wasn't one of those wives. of one of those guys for people. And she was comfortable in her own skin.”
“I just think that, you know, you lose A parent, and you feel you've lost half of you, and then You know, then you can look to your left and you can see your siblings and you can see your dad on your right and you can figure out the maths on it and you sort of think it's okay. There's a hundred percent is still here.”