Maggie O'Farrell
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All my clothes are secondhand, but I did buy a pair of new silver Vivienne Westwood shoes to get married in, which I still have.
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A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
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Rosanna Arquette
American actress
A ring I bought at Reinstein Ross for myself after a big break-up. It was kind of shallow.
A pair of Back to the Future shoes. They were auctioned off for Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s charity, so I bid and I won. I am a huge fan of the films and if there was ever a pair of shoes I should own, it was those.
Martin Freeman
English actor
I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
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In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
To my first real boyfriend, for being so mean to him. But really I was just being mean to myself.
Yesterday: I went to see the film God’s Own Country.
Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
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