“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.”

“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.”