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My wife, because she manages me and sometimes there isn’t time for niceties and we have to talk in a language that isn’t very marriage-like.
My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
My first wife – we were too young.
My father – I think he doubted our closeness.
Raising awareness of ethical and environmental issues in the clothing industry. I think I was the original whistleblower within fashion.
Boarding school. It was horrible.
Threat of nuclear war, Iran/US situation, Syria, everything. I take sleeping pills.
A hydrogen-powered private jet for me and my dog. We’d be zero carbon dioxide emissions, so could go anywhere we liked.
Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
Camping with my parents in the south of France. We went every year with the beautiful bell tent they made on a sewing machine. We even had a lavatory tent which was fabulous except, one day, it blew away with my father in it.
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