My collection has a whole new cut; they are based on the style of jeans my mum wore in Texas in the '70s.
My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.
Mum: [Grossly deformed and gigantic] Come to mummy Lionel!
Mum: YOU will look after me, Lionel.
One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.
When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.
Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.
You'll be alright," I say, "Mum likes .
My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion.
Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.
Like Mum and that bastard.” “You mean Da?” “Call him what you like.
My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.
My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.
Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.
My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.
My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.
My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.
