Colm Tóibín

She's a marvelous reader.

She's also got tremendously good taste.

Really exquisite taste.

And everything she wears and everything she does, really, she's great.

Yeah, but I also just have old friends and I would never notice what they're wearing.

But with her, yeah, there's a really great style, which, yeah, I'm really interested in.

Oh yes, it was great drama.

I eventually went to Paris and I went to the fitting and oh, they put pins all over the material and the woman came and a man came and I stood there and it's very exciting.

And what's great about those Chauvet shirts is they're so plain.

They don't look like much.

I think you could probably wear one in Ireland and no one would know what it was.

But you know, I haven't picked it up yet.

I have to go for a fitting and I was going to go in the autumn, but the problem is the whole Grasse problem, you know, because I wouldn't sign a contract with Grasse now because of their appalling behavior.

and my friends who are the editors are, you know, it's unclear what's going to happen.

So I'm going to have to keep postponing this Chauvet fitting.

But it's tremendously exciting because the Irish prime minister of years back, he was famous for getting Chauvet shirts.

Oh, I haven't thought of it.

When I go finally for the final buy, I don't know what it's going to be like.

I'm going to have to ask them what else they have.

But I went downstairs.