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1. 0:03I haven't got a master plan or
2. 0:08a very kind of organic in the way I let
3. 0:11it come come at me you know I ran away
4. 0:14from home at 17 to be a punk
5. 0:18rocker completely green I just wanted to
6. 0:22go where that was happening so packed my
7. 0:25bags and left with absolutely no idea of
8. 0:29what I wanted to do and I've just built
9. 0:32a career around it I suppose and because
10. 0:35I'm not classically trained in
11. 0:40anything and it always involved a heavy
12. 0:44visual sense especially on yourself or
13. 0:48on other people that's why I do do a bit
14. 0:50of styling a bit of jewelry you know if
15. 0:53I haven't got it in my wardrobe I'll
16. 0:54make it you know it's very much oh let's
17. 0:58use a you know safety pins the classic
18. 1:02but I started using materials that were
19. 1:05not thought of
20. 1:07as accessories or clothing I just used
21. 1:10my creativity to plunder things from
22. 1:14different areas and reinterpret it into
23. 1:18a photo or a outfit for a club or a
24. 1:23piece of jewelry for a shop
25. 1:27or I mean it's not the best way to go
26. 1:31about
27. 1:32it I suppose one of my favorite times
28. 1:36must have been when I did actually run
29. 1:38away from home and it was
30. 1:421977 and I came to London but didn't
31. 1:45really know anyone in
32. 1:47London so I went to
33. 1:50Manchester and it really had its own
34. 1:53scene going on up
35. 1:56there
36. 1:58so it was kind of freedom for me that so
37. 2:02I was really happy then even though I
38. 2:04didn't know what I was going to
39. 2:06do it was a time of great kind of
40. 2:10everyone was experimenting and changing
41. 2:13their look and listening to new sound
42. 2:17and that was a great time and then that
43. 2:21of course when by the time I got back I
44. 2:23got to London it was part of the new
45. 2:26romantic time and that's really when I
46. 2:28became much more more aware of
47. 2:33fashion from like you know Blitz and all
48. 2:36those kind of clubs low
49. 2:39points well I was idiot enough to become
50. 2:42a heroin addict through part of my
51. 2:46career and that was a bit
52. 2:51low and I wouldn't advise it on
53. 2:55anyone it didn't stop me working but it
54. 2:58kind of stopped me
55. 3:01I think I was quite unhappy and it just
56. 3:03helped Shield it so that was a big
57. 3:09mistake one of the first people I worked
58. 3:12with was a designer called Anthony price
59. 3:16and Anthony had seen me trolling around
60. 3:19heaven or something wearing all these
61. 3:21mad pieces of jewelry and asked me to do
62. 3:24a show and I at the time I was only
63. 3:26making jewelry for myself it was the
64. 3:28first time I was working with big makeup
65. 3:31artists and big models and it was a big
66. 3:34number at Camden
67. 3:37Palace so I suppose Anthony kind of kick
68. 3:40started me
69. 3:43into thinking a bit more seriously about
70. 3:47fashion before I worked with Anthony I
71. 3:51just thought it was like dressing
72. 3:54up going out causing trouble
73. 4:01I think every designer or artist loves
74. 4:05to have one someone around who inspires
75. 4:08them and I'm really lucky with
76. 4:10that uh when I first started it was a
77. 4:14glorious girl called Scarlet Napoleon
78. 4:18Bordello and we used to wear I used to
79. 4:21make jewelry for her me and Scarlet used
80. 4:24to have these dresses David holer made
81. 4:26for
82. 4:28us like these mad sham dresses he
83. 4:32made really cheap well 25 quid for the
84. 4:36dress So we had like two of those and
85. 4:38then I'd make a new piece of jewelry
86. 4:40each week that's how it kind of got
87. 4:44going well her full name was Scarlet
88. 4:47Napoleon
89. 4:49Bordello I don't think she was born with
90. 4:52it it was when we were all inventing
91. 4:55names in the early 80s
92. 5:02she was the one that actually came up
93. 5:04with the
94. 5:05blame oh
95. 5:08yeah car's got a question JY what's your
96. 5:12real
97. 5:13name buger
98. 5:16off I adore children as well so I've got
99. 5:20quite a lot of God children that are all
100. 5:22different ages now cuz I love the way
101. 5:25that they look at things when they come
102. 5:28to the studio or or something it's like
103. 5:31a candy store for them so I just
104. 5:33encourage them to make something or I
105. 5:36think I'm quite child like in the way I
106. 5:38approach things there's a Simplicity to
107. 5:43it I've got an ear thing I'm not sure
108. 5:47whether it's a fetish cuz I've never met
109. 5:49anyone else that has it they don't have
110. 5:52to be
111. 5:53big but ears just send
112. 5:57me and in Brazil they do have fabulous
113. 6:00little ones all the boys have these
114. 6:03little ones that curve
115. 6:12around What attracted you to the safety
116. 6:18pin it's just such a genius piece of
117. 6:23design and if you use them in volume you
118. 6:27can really make a piece of arm out of
119. 6:30it well there was two pieces that I made
120. 6:33when I first started and I was didn't
121. 6:36have a
122. 6:37clue and one I found these brilliant big
123. 6:41black wooden beads they were quite big
124. 6:46and I did
125. 6:47four strands of them that kind of fitted
126. 6:51into each other so it's like your whole
127. 6:54chest was just these big fat wooden
128. 6:57black shiny beads and then another piece
129. 7:00I made was out of string and I dyed it
130. 7:05and I dyed it and I dyed it and all
131. 7:07stuck together and then I started tying
132. 7:09it up and it we used to call it the
133. 7:11Doctor Who necklace all it was was dyed
134. 7:15string tied it looked like some mad kind
135. 7:18of coral or something but in fact it was
136. 7:22just string from
137. 7:24wwest so someone wants to know about the
138. 7:26day that you shot
139. 7:30someone's Manchild video oh yeah n
140. 7:33cherri's n well that was a little piece
141. 7:36of heaven it was with Jean Baptist
142. 7:40mandino almost all the characters in it
143. 7:43are
144. 7:44family and he shoved me in it as
145. 7:48well which was a bit
146. 7:53unfortunate me next to Barry C and thank
147. 7:57you very much onti M
148. 8:00know all the kids everyone did
149. 8:03everything in one take I took about
150. 8:07eight what was your first big fashion
151. 8:09editorial
152. 8:11feature if you
153. 8:13remember it was for
154. 8:17ID and it was called stolen
155. 8:20property and there was a fabulous model
156. 8:23around at the time called Jenny howth
157. 8:26and Mark Leon was supposed to done the p
158. 8:31pictures and Jenny arrived and I
159. 8:33couldn't believe that I got Jenny cuz
160. 8:36she was big into National star at the
161. 8:39time Jenny came in one Sunday and Mark
162. 8:42ended up giving Jenny the cameras cuz
163. 8:45she's a genius photographer as well so I
164. 8:48had to call up Scarlet go Scarlet what
165. 8:51are you doing can you get the bus over
166. 8:53now without a model so me
167. 8:56and Scarlet ended up modeling it while
168. 9:00Jenny took the pictures
169. 9:03so I haven't done an editorial for a
170. 9:06while but I've got like three in my head
171. 9:10that need to be dealt so I'm still
172. 9:13researching on that I know the kind of
173. 9:15photographers I want to approach I like
174. 9:18to take time to think about it cuz you
175. 9:21don't always have that luxury but I'm a
176. 9:24great believer in
177. 9:26research cuz when I first started I
178. 9:29didn't know anything about fashion so I
179. 9:31made it my kind
180. 9:33of thing to research every I mean I do
181. 9:38it with things like this like these
182. 9:40ideas books where I just pull
183. 9:45out every month or so I keep a record
184. 9:49it's like a dictionary for
185. 9:52me of all things that have caught my
186. 9:57eye Judy what was the hardest handmade
187. 10:00order you've ever
188. 10:04made Mark Jacobs asked me to do
189. 10:07something for Louis Vuitton which of
190. 10:09course I was thrilled
191. 10:12about so I went over to Paris and they
192. 10:15had this really dodgy kind of denim that
193. 10:18they wanted me to customize so I came
194. 10:22out with this idea of like putting lace
195. 10:25and buttons on one lot and then like
196. 10:27silver and chains on on another lot and
197. 10:30we were only going to do like 20 pieces
198. 10:33or something for the stores but then in
199. 10:37the end it kept on creeping
200. 10:40up and we had to make hundreds of
201. 10:48pieces it wasn't a nightmare working for
202. 10:51luiton it was great in fact so nightmare
203. 10:54job
204. 10:55um oh it's got to be some pop star I
205. 10:58didn't want to do in the first
206. 11:03place shame I can't tell you the Jerry H
207. 11:06will story cuz I signed a
208. 11:09confidentiality
209. 11:13Clos someone wants to know why you look
210. 11:15so Brown have you been
211. 11:17away no it's these pills I'm on for my
212. 11:21uh cuz I've being ill they give me these
213. 11:27my blood C ulation pills I'm sure it's
214. 11:31that and I can't really do makeup cuz if
215. 11:34I put makeup on it tends to end up on
216. 11:37everyone else's face and not
217. 11:39mine so people get really annoyed with
218. 11:43you when my mother used to get dressed
219. 11:45in the
220. 11:4760s and when I was really quite young
221. 11:50like
222. 11:51from
223. 11:54four all through we lived in Spain till
224. 11:58about 11
225. 12:01I always used to comment on her
226. 12:04clothes and go oh no mother not that
227. 12:08nail varnish with those shoes and then
228. 12:12we lived in Spain in the' 60s and I
229. 12:15remember my
230. 12:17cousin she looked like um Lyn Redgrave
231. 12:20in georg's
232. 12:22girl that 60s film and she arrived in
233. 12:26Spain
234. 12:28the uh uh she came on holiday to Spain
235. 12:31when we were living there and she wore a
236. 12:33mini skirt like in 66 or something
237. 12:3967 and it just caused a riot in Spain
238. 12:43because it was quite you know still
239. 12:46under General Franco and very Catholic
240. 12:49and and she just kind of plumpish kind
241. 12:53of English girl stomping through the
242. 12:56Spanish village where we lived in a
243. 12:58minis scope it just caused a riot and I
244. 13:01thought how
245. 13:02fabulous that a piece of clothing could
246. 13:05cause so much
247. 13:14trouble I go with the flow and I still
248. 13:17enjoy doing it I kind of enjoy waking up
249. 13:21every day to either make something
250. 13:25or I still enjoy it
251. 13:30and with
252. 13:32me I do go through ups and downs a bit
253. 13:35with
254. 13:37it but I've worked with some such great
255. 13:40people so youve got to learn to be
256. 13:42inspired by other people
257. 13:47really I'm off to the Pearly King and
258. 13:50Queen B