Stephen Jones

And you know, it's funny because, I mean, I don't know if you know that, well, right at the beginning, I was making hats for Steve Strange, New Romantic, and hats for Diana, Princess of Wales.

And I realized once that I almost, but I did not use the same pattern for both.

I stopped myself at the last minute thinking I would be excommunicated or sent to the tower or something.

Was she a neuromantic?

Yeah, we were observing it from the outside.

So we were in a way doing it in the third person, whereas she was doing it for real.

We were going in.

I was taken by my friend, Ginny Hall, the jeweler.

And it was always a slight sense of relief when you did get inside.

But I'd actually started making hats for Steve quite early on.

So I was definitely in the fast lane as far as he was concerned.

And we did always dress up.

Yeah.

Out of respect.

Funnily enough, last night I went to the King's Gallery to see the exhibition of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II clothes.

And it was black tie.

And it wasn't a dinner, it was just a cocktail party.

But being in black tie seemed to be the correct thing, sort of out of respect to her and respect to her clothes.

Yeah, it is quite fun.

I did say to one of the attendees that it makes things very simple for a man to wear.