Daniel Clowes
American cartoonist and writer
Probably in the past few years, though maybe it's just some mid-life hormonal surge.
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Belfast 1994, when my first son was born.
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Philip Treacy
Irish-born haute couture milliner
As a child growing up in Ireland, on a beautiful day playing on what was known as a cock of hay (or haystack).
Last Sunday when all the family came round to celebrate my 88th birthday. (Or was it Saturday. Or the week before, perhaps?)
Katharine Hamnett
English fashion designer
Camping with my parents in the south of France. We went every year with the beautiful bell tent they made on a sewing machine. We even had a lavatory tent which was fabulous except, one day, it blew away with my father in it.
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