Stephen Jones

Hello, Bella, my darling.

How are you?

It's quite a long story.

Well, first of all, I thought, well, what unites us?

Because fashion is really about communication.

And I thought, well, Vivian unites us.

And I thought, well, if I'm going to be lying flat on my back and I'm wearing a hat, I have to have something which is a little bit soft.

I can't have something with a brim.

So I thought, well, maybe the Vivian tweed crown or the Vivian crown could be suitable.

So that's what I'm wearing today.

And it's not the tweed version, but one which is made from woolens and lame and different fabrics.

And then I'm wearing an MA1 jacket, which was given to me by Khaled Sotsani from Di Cicorso Como a few years ago.

And then underneath, I'm wearing a T-shirt from Vivienne, which I bought, I think, in about 1977, 1978.

It's a seditionary as well.

And then my original bondage trousers, which amazingly enough, I can still get into.

Gosh.

And...

Socks from Pantherella, which were a special edition by Sanderson that I thought looked quite wonderfully Baroque.

But when I put them on, my husband, Craig, said to me it looked like his mother's sofa, which wasn't exactly the effect that I wanted to have.

And a pair of shoes from a company called Milk Boy in Japan, which was... Milk was a...