WALKING A HOUNDDOG IN GUNNERSBURY PARK

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Vogue was running a feature on ‘real’ women which apparently includes me. I am relieved that being real doesn’t require an interest in fashion. The Fitting: This is a job in itself. It takes place in a room the size of a barn with rack after rack of dresses, skirts, coats, tops and bottoms, stretching … Read more

Day for Night

tea

‘Can I take you anywhere?’ my driver asked; a young man, with perfect English and an Irish name, Sean. I could read the back of his head: Handbags, shoes, furs. ‘Kurffurstendamm. Like your Bond street?’ He said, looking over his shoulder at me. He was about eighteen; a son, not a driver.‘Tea-bags,’ I said. ‘Fresh … Read more

PEARLS FOR GIRLS BOYS

My ‘nephew’ in this video was a delightful, sunny, young man who had flown in a few days earlier from Oregon where there were no jobs for models – Here, he was booked up immediately. I am dressed in black sequins from head to toe. The reason we are sitting down is that, though you … Read more

Tempelhof

TEMPELHOF

I have a recurring dream. In it I fly back to Tempelhof, again and again. I pass under the giant canopy. It is raining, but I am dry. I hear my footsteps crossing the empty concourse. No-one looks at my papers; there is no-one here but me. Outside, my car is parked, the driver waiting. … Read more

SOUTH QUAY – MODELLING IN A DESERT

CHINESE GRANDMOTHER

I found an email in my Junk Box. It was from a Grace Ng and about a possible job.
I wrote back, hoping she hadn’t given up or found another mature model. I wanted the assignment: a shoot fulfilling her wish to redress her beloved grandmother’s lack of a childhood. This was intriguing – I am a grandmother and my childhood has informed my life.

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