Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic My personal style signifier is a patterned tailored jacket. I\u2019ve got some in tweed, one with\u00a0beaded embroidery and\u00a0another with snakes\u00a0on the back \u2013 with matching Gucci slippers. I have quite a lot from Alexander McQueen\u2019s early collections, and others with unusual prints. I normally wear them\u00a0with bold, memorable shoes, which I\u00a0tone down with jeans and a T-shirt.\u00a0The last thing I bought and loved was\u00a0a playful little dog called Zoltan. He\u2019s\u00a0a\u00a0Brussels Griffon, which is a small breed.\u00a0He\u2019s in his teenage years so we\u2019re working through that.The best souvenir I\u2019ve brought home is\u00a0a beautiful crystal from Bali that I got about 20 years ago when I was there visiting friends. It weighs about 30kg \u2013 I can\u2019t remember how I managed to get it on the plane. It probably took a bit of sweet-talking and bribing the people at the check-in desk. \u00a0The best book I\u2019ve read in the past year is The Second Mountain by David Brooks. It sounds like an uphill climb, but it\u2019s actually about shifting your focus, giving back and connecting with people. I\u2019ve found it to be a helpful guide.\u00a0Whenever I travel I\u00a0search\u00a0for the best falafel\u00a0in townI am inspired by David Hicks, the British interior decorator and designer who contrasted traditional architecture with modern interiors and used dazzling colour combinations and unexpected finishes. He\u00a0was associated with grand country houses,\u00a0but inside he would have these amazing\u00a0geometric carpets and bright or\u00a0unusual colours \u2013 he was famous for his\u00a0gloss-brown Coca-Cola walls. Or he\u00a0might\u00a0clad a dining room of period furniture in stainless steel.My style icon is B\u00e1rbara Hulanicki, the Polish fashion designer who founded London department store Biba. She always wears a bob, black sunglasses and simple monochrome clothes \u2013 I wouldn\u2019t copy her style but her ideas were very inspiring. She opened Biba on Kensington High Street in 1973, and it had fashion, beauty, a fabulous restaurant and an incredible roof terrace with fountains, flamingos and bars. It didn\u2019t survive the economic turmoil of the 1970s but Hulanicki was a visionary and went on to do great things in interiors.\u00a0The best gift I\u2019ve given recently is a\u00a0loaf of Harrods sourdough bread. It\u2019s delicious, and if you order it 48 hours ahead they can put someone\u2019s initials on it.\u00a0So if you\u2019re going to a dinner party, a bespoke Harrods loaf is a lovely gift.\u00a0In my fridge you\u2019ll always find seasonal vegetables, bone broth, white wine, dark chocolate and fresh herbs. I\u00a0eat\u00a0out a lot because of all the travelling I\u00a0do\u00a0for work, so when I\u2019m at home cooking is normally simple and very healthy.\u00a0The song guaranteed to get me on the\u00a0dancefloor is \u201cMurder on the Dancefloor\u201d by Sophie Ellis-Bextor \u2013 it reminds me of house parties in the early 2000s. I had quite a few friends in fashion \u2013 Erdem Moral\u0131o\u011flu and Lee McQueen ended up at one party I threw in my west London flat. Lee was dancing around the living room; it was a lot of fun.\u00a0The last item of clothing I added to my wardrobe was a pair of second-hand Gucci trousers \u2013 I buy a lot of vintage. I can\u2019t remember what year these are from but they\u2019re covered in a Tom Ford floral print, which I think is chrysanthemums in\u00a0blue, white and orange.\u00a0My guiltiest pleasure \u200bis a falafel pitta from Falafel King on Golborne Road in west London. When I travel I search for the\u00a0best falafel in town. I like wholemeal pitta loaded with every salad, chillies and all\u00a0the spicy dressings.\u00a0An object I would never part with is a valet stand I\u00a0found at a Paris flea market about 20 years ago. It\u2019s very practical and beautiful and I use it every day for hanging my jackets and throwing my keys and phone on. Jacques Adnet designed it for Herm\u00e8s in the late 1940s and it is made of metal wrapped in handstitched leather.The grooming staple I\u2019m never without is a lightweight SPF by Heliocare. I\u2019m getting better at using SPF all year round, but it\u2019s a bit like when the hygienist asks if you floss every day. The other thing I always need are Muji\u2019s lens cleaners. They come in a pack of tiny, folded-up squares of\u00a0paper that keep your glasses spotless. Heliocare 360\u00b0 oil-free gel SPF50, \u00a331 for 50ml. Muji glasses cleaning wipes, \u20ac2.95My favourite room in my house is the dining room because it\u2019s a place to be sociable with friends. The room itself feels quite relaxed, with Jean Royere Tr\u00e8fle dining chairs\u200b from the 1930s \u2013 a gift from David Collins \u2013 and a modernist, almost Asian-style table called Kyoto by \u200bPhilippe Hurel. I like throwing dinner parties \u2013 it\u2019s fun dressing up, although it\u2019s quite casual when my partner and I cook and entertain. \u00a0A place that means a lot to me is the Outer Hebrides. Although I grew up in Glasgow, I spent five years of my childhood living on the Isle of Lewis where my mother was born. I was there in the 1970s and it was a very small community; they had sheep, grew vegetables, caught fish and wove Harris Tweed by hand like my grandfather. Looking back, I realise we had all the things people strive for now \u2013 living off the land \u2013 and it was amazing.\u00a0My interior design signifier is laidback glamour. I love intricate, ornate fabrics and a lot of detail in things like rugs and cushions. In other ways my home is quite pared-back \u2013 I have shutters or blinds instead of heavy curtains, for example. I like a lot of textures and layers so it never feels austere.The best gift I\u2019ve received is a photobook my partner gave me of our trip to India in 2007. We went to the Himalayas and hiked up to Kunjapuri Temple, \u200ba magical\u200b place with views across the snow-capped mountains \u2013 that was one of my favourite \u200bphotographs. We take so many pictures, but they\u2019re all digital, so to take the time to print them out is really special.\u00a0I\u2019ve recently rediscovered rail travel. I\u2019ve just been on a sabbatical and spent a month of it travelling around Europe by train \u2013 it harks back to the interrailing days of my youth. For me the joy of taking trains is gliding straight into the city centre; there\u2019s no traffic or waiting for your baggage, and the landscapes along the way are lovely.\u00a0The thing I couldn\u2019t do without is reflexology, a type of foot massage that I get at Reflexions every two weeks if I\u2019m in London. Some people don\u2019t like the sound of it because they\u2019re ticklish, but I find it very relaxing. Each part of your foot relates to another part of your body \u2013 the arch of your foot is linked to your digestive system, and your big toe to your brain. So when you\u2019re getting the massage done, they can actually tell which parts of your body are stressed and it helps to rebalance you. I find it very powerful and it keeps me in good shape.\u00a0My favourite building is the Mackintosh Building that houses the Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the most celebrated architect from the art nouveau period. His work is incredible and he designed everything including the interiors, the furniture and light fittings \u2013 even the door handles. You used to be able to take a tour around it but there was quite a bad fire in 2014, after which it was being restored when another fire broke out four years later \u2013 I\u2019m hoping it will open again soon.The works of art that changed everything for me are by Francis Bacon. I saw his exhibition at the Royal Academy a few years ago: his triptychs are so beautiful \u2013 and slightly terrifying. I was always drawn to the raw, disturbing images in his work, and am inspired by his use of intense colours and perspective. Bacon was an interior designer in his earlier life and perhaps I could relate to that, subconsciously\u200b. \u00a0I do believe in life after death. I think we are an infinite source of energy.\u00a0My favourite website is The Modern House, an estate agency with architecturally led properties. It\u2019s really well curated and there\u2019s a great editorial part of the website so it isn\u2019t just about shifting properties. They have a sister website called Inigo that also has interesting articles, including interviews with people in their homes. I find them both inspiring to look at.The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Gerhard Richter. Some of his works are abstract but others are photorealism \u2013 they\u2019ve got an ethereal quality to them and the scale is quite astonishing. I used to have one of his paintings as my screensaver: that was as close as I got to having one in my home. There are 100 of his paintings in an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which I\u2019d like to see.My grooming and wellbeing gurus are my hairdresser, Matt Mulhall, who is the go-to for precise and refined haircuts for men in creative industries. He does a lot of work for magazines and fashion shows. He\u2019s been cutting my hair for more than 20 years and always seems to get the mood right \u2013 whether it\u2019s shorter for summer or longer for winter. I\u2019ve also got a brilliant osteopath friend called Sam Kankanamge who runs retreats in Sri Lanka: I\u2019m excited to be going on another in August. My other wellbeing guru is my partner, who is a kundalini yoga teacher \u2013 we\u2019ve been doing yoga together for 18 years.When I need to feel inspired, I stop off at the V&A and get lost there. I\u2019ve been many times and it\u2019s always a go-to. \u200bI usually check in on Vivienne Westwood\u2019s Pirates exhibit as it reminds me of how inspiring she was with her knowledge about history and culture. The V&A also puts on really interesting lectures \u2013 you can arrive at night and wander through a\u200bn empty museum, which heightens the atmosphere.\u00a0The best bit of advice I ever received was \u201clife is not a rehearsal\u201d. The saying has been repurposed a few times but it\u2019s good to remember \u2013 just get on with it. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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