December 21, 2011 |
Sophia Neophitou shot by Sean Thomas.
1. To continue to be fearless (or foolhardy if I was to be defined by Antony Miles) Fear always gets in the way of what you aspire to do – always take the plunge never regret not trying.
2. Try never to turn a ‘blind eye’ to injustice and cruelty try and consider others always, do at least one selfless thing every day- something for someone else.
3. Anything from Jenny Saville. I have always adored her work and her vision of womanhood- ample, lush, and sensual, not perfect. But perfect to me in it’s imperfection-especially her huge nudes. I first saw her work at the Saachi gallery a million years ago straight from her graduation show. Obviously need to win the lottery to achieve this and spend part of my ill gotten gains this way.
4. To always have desire – for life, love, change, humanity, loyalty.
5. To always have the fortune to work with people I love and respect from the bottom of my heart in an all encompassing passionate way-people I believe in 100 per cent.
6. A piece from Jeff Koons big silver dog please!! (Again this would need to be facilitated by a lottery win.)
7. To have a stint as a cruise line singer-would love it! – with all my designers making me costumes. And Antony Miles being my agent!
8. All the back catalogue of Nina Simone and Etta James and the Pretenders- My car got broken into a while ago and all of my fav CD nicked devastated, never manage to replace any of them so fathers xmas please fix this for me!
9. Always trying to have a sideways view of the world and making every NO a YES.
10. Finally always having enough time to indulge in all the people I love more than anything in the world- my precious boys, my family and my friends.
10a- Carsten Holler Slide. Don’t quite know where I would put it-once had a go on miuccia Prada’s one in her office where I was firmly pushed down the slide by the good lady herself with various top tips how to avoid injury.The singular best helter skelter experience ever culminating in being scooped up at the bottom by two handsome Prada clad boys. Basically -‘want that one’
by Sophia Neophitou
