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You wouldn’t know it to look at me, but I was actually born on Guernsey, raised on a wholesome diet of fresh air and locally grown produce. From there we moved to South Africa when I was 8 with more fresh air in the open expansive spaces of the Veld. From early on I was naturally sporty and outdoorsy, and I still am, although sometimes more in theory than practice. Not to get all poetic, but maybe a familiarity with being itinerant and growing up in wild open spaces gave me a taste for venturing into the unknown, physically and conceptually.

While we were not rich, education was really important to my parents and they economised to send me to great schools. I was a crap student; however, I was great at sports and was always voted team captain for the netball and cross-country teams, so they couldn’t kick me out. Or rather, when I finally did get kicked out, I really had to go to great lengths for the boot. And while I may have been crap for remembering facts and figures for the sake of remembering facts and
figures, what I did get was on education how to learn.

From that point on life has gone by at warp speed. In about 20 years I managed to go from a squat in Brixton to my beautiful dream home in Regent’s Park, via a catalogue of wonderful and seemingly contradictory jobs: starting out in the Great Gear Market on the Kings Road to working my way up from cashier top salesgirl at Joseph, being headhunted by the much missed Jones in Floral Street, to working at Lampton’s Gym where I met the head of A&R at Warner Brothers. This led to my first job in the music industry where I looked after Betty Boo and setting up my first company, Flavor Music, looking after a group of hip-hop producers. It is here that I met Noel and got married in Las Vegas in ‘97 and had my daughter Anais in 2000, divorced in 2001 followed by a brief crash landing in 2006 which brings me to NOW.A life lived 24/7/365 in LaLa Land can be very exciting and distracting. Let’s face it, the exuberance of youth will eventually burn itself out if it does not find its way back to some kind of original source. Let’s just say I’m working on not being so distracted any more.

It is out of the crucible of all my experiences good and bad that my design and lifestyle range is emerging. All of my experiences, the highs, the lows and the long bland stretches in between are remembered. Life is like that. It’s not so much what experiences you have or have not had, its what you do with what you’ve got. I guess that I always lived by that rule unconsciously and that has definitely allowed me the freedom to expand magnificently, for the most part. This is the time in my life where I want to bring more consciousness to this expansion.

Regrets, mmmmmmmostly not. I know my greatest achievement is my daughter Anais. But she is more a gift than an achievement, and really the culmination of all that I have been through. So who’s to say what’s right and wrong, good or bad? It all comes right in the end.

LOVES

Anais, laughing, traveling, freebies, cooking, meeting people, Top Shop, lace, flea markets, room service, sunsets, poker, painted leather, Diptique candles, anything organic, bikinis, early nights, riding, high heels, Agent Provocateur, handbags, my cats, friends, serenity, music, photography, family, all that’s fresh and wild, open fires, football, big sunglasses, vintage clothes, massages, dinner parties, lazy Sunday mornings reading the papers, recycling, water….lots of it, sushi, English breakfasts, the beach, Spirulina, fast cars, road trips, scented things, swimming, Chanel, denim.

PEOPLE I HAVE WORKED WITH:

David & Victoria Beckham

Kate Moss

Jo Wood

Cher

John Galliano

Top Shop

ARE YOU READY TO ROCK ?