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Camila Batmanghelidjh

Camila Batmanghelidjh

  I had tears in my eyes when I read an interview with Camila Batmanghelidjh. It moved me the way she spoke about the young people she worked with through her charity Kids Company, her...

In Front of the Camera

In Front of the Camera

My father hated having his photograph taken. He said the flash made him go temporarily blind. In the past, he was known to have occasionally attacked any fool that tried it on. Then...

Looking for Eric

Looking for Eric

Last night I delivered a black Highwayman style coat to Eric Cantona. It was the final piece of his stage outfit for his concert tour for his new album of cool songs, written...

Save the Bees

Save the Bees

During these dark times, my great friend Karma and I stabilize ourselves by talking on the phone about what we call ‘the beauty alongside’. These conversations are often about creative stuff we are...

The Jaipur Literary Festival

The Jaipur Literary Festival

I am a very un-intrepid traveller. I put it down to my childhood, journeying to Morocco in a van, with nowhere to live when we got there - and no money. Now I...

Being Mossed

Being Mossed

Those of us lucky enough to have crossed paths with Kate Moss know about ‘being Mossed’. It usually involves a chance encounter where Kate takes control and somehow, out of nowhere, you are...

Christmas

Christmas

The first Christmas I remember mattering, was when I lived in Morocco aged six to eight years old. I woke up to a stocking with a punnet of raspberries nestling at the top....

Freudian Slips

Freudian Slips

I keep this Post It taped to the inside of my door in case I need it. It is from a book of ‘Freudian Slips’ sticky notes that I bought from the Freud...

This Is Shit

This Is Shit

During lockdown I saw this image on the Instagram feed of conceptual artist Jeremy Deller. It was a poster by his friend the legendary graphic artist Scott King - and it was for...

Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas

The artist Sarah Lucas has a retrospective opening at Tate Britain next week. For her fans, of which I am a die hard, we know this show will be both gratifying and mindblowing....

Nico

Nico

Here is Nico looking demure and alluring. I saw her perform in the late 70’s at the Music Machine in Camden Town. The venue was full of punk rockers, I found myself standing...

Zoe Tamerlis

Zoe Tamerlis

The late writer and actress Zoe Tamerlis Lund with her husband Robert Lund. She wrote Bad Lieutenant for director Abel Ferrara, he told me all about her one evening last year in a...