I really like the relaxed glamour of the '70s.
Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.
After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.
My mum is totally crazy for fashion still. Her job was as a laundress, but I loved it when she would dress up in her red suit with a mini jacket and flared trousers and get her wig fixed at the hairdresser's - it was the time of wigs - and we would go shopping.
When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms.
Socks and sandals together are absolutely fine, as long as your flares are wide enough to cover your feet.
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
I love the garishness of the '90s - the giant platform shoes, the sparkly butterfly tops, the chokers.
