“I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!”

“I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one's health”

“Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore.”

“London is speared by the tube map of fashion zone: zone one is classic-edgy, zone two is edgy-dowdy while the counties do a classic, edgy, dowdy hotch potch - epitomised so beautifully by Kate Moss.”

“Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard”

“It's called joining the property market - and it shits on war for stress”

“I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!”

“Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.”

“Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined the suit living a life of tea parties and lunches with the girls at the Ivy”

“I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks”

“The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You’re generation lacks the drive.”