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The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

I don't like all of the contemporary country. I like some of it, but I'm mostly into the traditional style.

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry.