It's not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn't think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, 'Why am I doing this?'
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It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.
I always steal a pair of socks on every photo shoot I do. It's my thing.
The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.
Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.
If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.
I sleep with my socks on sometimes.
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
Fashion is intoxicating, and it plays a part in all of our everyday lives. A lot of people use it as a form of escape, of realising a fantasy, and in some ways that becomes an unobtainable norm.
It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.
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