When I was a teenager, I was into my horses more than my clothes. Couldn’t afford the clothes too. I was all about the jodhpurs. Jodhpurs was my look. Plus I really didn’t like wearing skirts because my legs were skinny. If I had to wear a skirt, like to school or something, I’d wear two pairs of leggings with it to fatten them up a bit. Such skinny legs.
I had to wear a uniform for school: jumper, tie, the usual. I used to mess with it. Change it. Funk it up. I’d wear my tie differently,costume spiderman, wear outrageous ysl shoes, loads of make-up. . . I didn’t do it for fashion reasons, though. Didn’t care about that. It was more because I wanted to be a statement, to make a statement. I liked to be different then, I like to be different now.
At about 14, I started getting into my catsuits. Oh, I’ve still got a thing about my catsuits. Love them. Back then, they were black and Lycra and always from Topshop. I wore them everywhere: when I went out, to school on non-uniform days, down the shops. . . everywhere.
I did used to like my Saturdays clothes-shopping as a teenager, of course I did. But because all my money was going on the horses, my mum used to buy my clothes. Then I got into customising. My mum had a sewing machine she used to make curtains with, and when she got a new one, she gave the old one to me. I started off making horse rugs with it, but then I started the customising. Customising my clothes. I still do that now, I make so many clothes from scratch. I make Harvey’s clothes – little tracksuits and things.
Cyberpunks in silver costume spiderman , clingy synthetics and shiny nylon . . . Out of this world? Not at all, says Francesca Fearon, there is an undercurrent of wearability here. And, with a few minor alterations, this is the shape of things to come
 ,catsuits;THE Paris autumn/winter 1995 fashion collections are like a double A-sided record. This bumper offering spun out over the past week plays a wild and wacky theme on one side — the sort of spectacle that earns splash headlines and front-page photo opportunities. On the flipside, realism steps in and the precious decadence is peeled away to reveal what women really want to know — what they will actually be wearing next season.
Blitzing the headlines this season is the glam, futuristic cyberpunk vision. Jean-Paul Gaultier’s whip-carrying cyberpunks wore hooded circuit-board print catsuits with bustle-bowed basques or tailoring. Neoprene was moulded into big fit-and-flare coats and astonishing ballgowns were shaped out of brightly coloured sleeping-bags. It was an extraordinary exhibition of sci-fi fashion interspersed with clever mohair and wool jersey tailoring.
Thierry Mugler’s gladiatorial robo-fashion provided the climax to his twentieth -anniversary collection, which was otherwise a pure Busby Berkeley extravaganza starring Tippi Hedren (the Hitchcock star), Patty Hearst (doing a spangled striptease), Jerry Hall, Elle Macpherson, and Marie Helvin along with a silver -spider costume ed cyborg who could have starred in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
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