Nick Harkaway

He's the least British Brit, despite being sort of iconically.

And of course, of course, he ended up Irish anyway.

First of all, I think we need to loosen our sense of who wears the lingerie in this situation.

Fair enough.

It's open season.

Second of all, so this was a friend of mine ran a boutique in North London, and she had this kind of wildly glamorous, goofy selection, which was beloved of all kinds of people.

And she said to me, we're doing the catalogue.

Will you do text for the catalogue?

And I said, sure, what do you want?

And she had created this extraordinary character, Miss Lala, who was the kind of muse of the boutique.

And she wanted it all written in the voice of Miss Lala.

And so it was less about describing the number of clips and buttons and how frightfully erotic the whole thing is and more about expressing a kind of massive joy in the ridiculousness and the beauty and the preposterousness of the whole thing and doing a kind of...

Eartha Kitt as Catwoman kind of, you know.

And it was huge fun.

And it terrifies me that that biography is still out there in the world for you to find.

Can you channel a little Miss Lala for us?

You know, I honestly can't.

Yeah, well, no, it was kind of, oh, my darlings, you need to understand the sheer iridescent beauty of this piece.

It's just, it makes me feel so divine.

And of course, except that it was quite fruity and I'm not sure what we're allowed to say.