I WAS BORN IN KING’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL ON DENMARK HILL. My mother was born in East London and my dad was from South London, but I spent a lot of time as a kid in East London with my mum’s family, so most people assume I’m an East Ender. I was interested in fashion since I was eight or nine. I didn’t question it. It was just something that was naturally a part of me. In the mid-1970s, I was one of the more stylish kids at school. I’d wear beads around my neck with a mohair jumper, drainpipe trousers and winkle pickers.
When I lived in Romford, aged 13 or 14, I used to travel up to the capital quite a lot. I kept my eyes open. When I was 17, I got into hairdressing and ended up working in a salon on Savile
