In my 30s, I was staring at a pair of expensive boots in a shop window when the photographer Gordon Parks came up behind me. He instantly understood, because he grew up even poorer than me; he made me buy them on my credit card.
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?
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Perfume for the wife, and the Jaguars. They were always secondhand. I have had every kind except the E-Type.
Buying art…. But it makes me happy!
The cheapest available Volvo.
A black Russian terrier – I paid almost £4,000 for him.
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