Just at the point some are thinking of retirement, I took on what has arguably been the biggest challenge of my career. It started with a party. A colleague and friend Sarah Gresty, BA Fashion Course Leader, from Central Saint Martins (who took over from Willie Walters), was celebrating her 50th birthday and I got chatting to a lovely guest. We had the standard ‘So what do you do?’ conversation and she said she was a TV producer and was working on a new sewing programme. I told her what I did, and she asked if I would have been
