At what point did minimalism start to come to the fore of your own wardrobe?
I actually think COS was quite a moment for me. When COS appeared, it was like, “Oh wow, there’s this whole minimal approach!” I think I was dipping into the H&M trend section before that, and then COS came along, and [I was] like, “Okay, this feels like it strikes a chord in me, and I want to dress like that.” That’s when it started, and then about three years ago, roughly, I made a decision to distil down my wardrobe into a palette that I felt was manageable, so I chose black, grey, camel and white—that tonal range. That’s partly because of how it looks—and I think that it suits me—but also partly because of the ease of getting dressed in the morning. I’m busy, and I’ve got three boys, and it was just like, I haven’t got time to really think about what to wear in the morning. I need this to work for me, but I still need to look good.
How do you get ready in the morning?
So it would’ve been different before the pandemic: I would’ve thought, “I want to wear those shoes or that jacket,” and I’d build the outfit around it. Post-pandemic, and after all the lockdowns of wearing so much lovely loungewear and cashmere, I have such a leaning to want to be comfortable, but then there is the odd day where I just want to feel really smart and sharp, and then that will dictate what I wear. But generally, right now, I just want to be comfortable, so that will dictate.
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