Bella Freud
British fashion designer
A more even mood.
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A hydrogen-powered private jet for me and my dog. We’d be zero carbon dioxide emissions, so could go anywhere we liked.
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If someone could answer my emails.
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Raising awareness of ethical and environmental issues in the clothing industry. I think I was the original whistleblower within fashion.
Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
Boarding school. It was horrible.
Threat of nuclear war, Iran/US situation, Syria, everything. I take sleeping pills.
To my parents, for being such a bitch.
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