Katharine Hamnett
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To my parents, for being such a bitch.
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I’ve made some terrible remarks about people over the years in the interests of light entertainment, and I regret them all.
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To Ms Dooley, for failing my maths GCSE several times over.
Everybody I’ve lost to suicide. When someone dies in that tragic way, you always feel you could have done more.
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Sydney mardi gras, 1993.
My education. Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived.
A gig in Chatham.
Running out of Molecule cologne.
Dame Joan Collins. She insists on being happy whatever is going on and, despite being a Tory, is a very caring person.
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