HILARY ALEXANDER: TOP TEN

FROM THE VAULT (SUMMER 2011)

The one and only and according to our very own Ginger Limb, owner of the best pair of puppies in fashion. We’ll miss you.

LISTEN UP!  YOU LOVE MUSIC AS MUCH AS WE DO – NAME 10 GREAT TUNES ON YOUR IPOD NOW?

Have never gotten around to getting my iPod loaded, but have iTunes on my iPad and Mac iBook: 1. ‘Seldom Seen Kid’, Elbow and esp. The Bones of You, 2. ‘Calma Apparente’, Eros Ramazotti, 3. ‘Mud Slide Slim’, James Taylor, 4. ‘Blue’, Joni Mitchell, 5. Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D, 6. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica, 7. Mozart’s Grand Mass in C, 8. Schumann, Piano Concerto in A Minor, 9. Knocking on Heaven’s Door, Guns N’ Roses, 10.’Naturally’ J.J.Cale

WE LOVE TV/FILM/THEATRE! WHAT ARE YOUR 10 MOST FABULOUS THINGS TO WATCH?

Strictly Come Dancing, 2. Dancing on Ice, 3. The Tudors, 4. Grand Designs, 5.  Location! Location! Location! 6.  Anything David Dimbleby, 7. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 8. New Tricks, 9. The Jersey Boys, 10. Have I Got News For You

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT THEM? WHAT ARE YOUR 10 LOVELY WORDS? FOOD, SEX, MONEY (THEY’RE OURS!)

Maya, 2. Macchu Picchu, 3. Pergamon, 4. Love, 5. Ashurbanipal, 6. Nebuchadnezzar, 7. Holiday, 8. Sunshine, 9. Bikini, 10. Gorgeous

YUM YUM – WHAT 10 THINGS DO YOU LIKE TO EAT? – DISHES, DESERTS, SAVOURIES, SWEETS!

Avocado, 2. Mozzarella, 3. Smoked Mussels, 4. Seafood pasta, 5. Peanut butter on toasted Swedish rye, 6. Vichysoisse, 7. Wild boar casserole, 8. Fennel dipped in olive oil, 9. Strawberries, 10. Oysters

L.O.V.E – WHAT 10 THINGS DO YOU L.O.V.E? WE WORK IN FASHION REMEMBER, WE LOVE EVERYTHING…

Fashion shows, 2. Tribal jewellery, 3. Incredible exotic fabrics, 4. Travelling, 5. Gardening, 6. Cats, 7. Friends, 8. Turning Left, 9. Designers with a sense of humour, 10. Having a ciggie with Marc Jacobs

H.A.T.E – WHAT 10 THINGS DO YOU H.A.T.E? WE WORK IN FASHION REMEMBER, WE HATE EVERYTHING…

PRs who cannot spell, 2. Blackberries which automatically add +44 to Paris/Milan LOCAL numbers, 3. Cold Callers, 4. Wasteful plastic packaging, 5. Avocados which say ready-to-eat but are rock-hard, 6. Catwalk venues with no lights on, 7. Tofu, 8. People who are cruel to animals, 9. Cowardly thugs, 10. Drunk drivers

POOH! WHAT 10 SMELLS ARE ROCKING YOUR NASAL WORLD? NOTHING RUDE NOW – WELL YOU CAN IF YOU WANT…

Lavender, 2. Jasmine, 3. Old English roses, 4. Giorgio Arman Prive’s Rose Alexandrie, 5. Lanvin’s Jeanne Lanvin, 6. Wholemeal bread toasting, 7. Balsamic vinegar, 8. A wood fire, 9. A good boeuf bourguignon, 10. The sea

UN-PUT-DOWN-ABLE! WHAT 10 BOOKS COULDN’T YOU LIVE WITHOUT? 10 MAGAZINE (OF COURSE)

1.Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’, 2. ‘Life’, Keith Richards, 3.David Nichols’ ‘One Day’, 4.Howard Jacobson’s ‘The Finkler Question’, 5.Don McCullen’s ‘Southern Frontiers’, 6. Annie Proulx’s ‘The Shipping News’, 7. John Irving’s ‘The World According to Garp’, 8. Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’, 9. Fiona MacCarthy’s ‘Byron: Life and Legend’, 10. Victoria Glendinning’s ‘Vita’

SUCH INSPIRATION! WHO ARE YOUR 10 HEROES? SUPERMAN, MOTHER TERESA, GOD?

1. God, 2. Verdi, 3. Puccini, 4. Beethoven, 5. Brahms, 6. Mozart, 7. Bruch, 8. Hiram Bingham, 9. The man who discovers cure for Alzheimers, 10. Khachaturian

HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE: WHERE ARE YOUR 10 FAVORITE PLACES? THAT BUS STOP, THAT VIEW, THAT BEACH?

1. My garden, 2. My friends’ house in the hills in the south of France, 3. Easter Island, 4. Machu Picchu, 5. Hotel Bela Vista, Macau, 6. Wainwright’s Coast to Coast Walk, 7. Payne’s Bay, Barbados, 8. La Garoupe, Antibes, 9. Pergamon Museum, Berlin, 10. Karnak, Thebes