When do you think was your earliest memory of clothes
making you feel really good? I was a bit self diagnosed ADHD
because I just couldn't concentrate in school because I
felt I I need more than this. Like there's there's something
out there calling me. You're a super successful model.
Your looks are a currency to a degree.
How do you feel about the ageing process?
When I turned 30, I had a bit of a Oh my God, I'm 30.
I could not get it into my mind that I was 30.
I often talk about clothes being our armour and I know you and I
have both tragically lost a brother, which is big, losing a
sibling. And I just wonder if you
remember, did you reach for anything in particular in your
early days of of grieving and loss to cocoon you and to
comfort you? Today I'm going on a style
journey with the fashion model and TV personality Missy Bakiri.
Hello and welcome, Missy. Hello.
Thank you for having me. It's.
So lovely to have you here. We were just just deciding that
it was a few years ago that we met, which is really, really
lovely. And so much has changed in
actually both of our lives since then.
So I'd just love to know what you're most excited about at the
moment. I'm really excited to be back to
London. I did a little 360 to be honest
with you. I was super busy in London and
you know, everything was moving so fast and it was a lot of
changes going on. And then I kind of hit a Little
Rock bottom where I was like, I need a change.
I need something super drastic to happen and I couldn't figure
out what it was. I was like, I just need to leave
London. And I was like, do I move back
home? Do I?
And I always went to Spain like every winter and every summer.
So I was like, I'm just going to try it out and and I did.
Where did you go in Spain? I went to Majorca is a Balearic
island, beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
And it's all about nature, the sea, the people, the food, the
tranquillity. And now back in London.
Now back in London. Deep into it.
Deep into it, so I'm super excited to be back and I feel
really happy to be back. And what projects in particular
are sort of lighting your fire? Well, I have a few projects
going on. I have a big TV project coming
up that I can't talk about yet. I know, sorry.
I'd love to have told you, but I can't actually talk about it.
And then I am launching my marble business with my sister,
which is we're selling beautiful marble tables, marble side
tables, a kitchen for the bathrooms, bathtubs and and then
I'm just been really busy modelling again, which is great.
Fantastic. Yeah.
Tell me briefly about the marble that where are you sourcing
that? So we're sourcing it from India,
which is super exciting. I always had a eye for interior
design. If I walked into my friend's
house or a family house or anything, I could just
visualize. I could say I could think that
we should be there. That is like picture.
I could see a picture of how the whole place could look like.
So it was a bit of almost a passion of mine, but I never
took it serious. So I did like our homes, I
helped friends, I gave advice, and now I'm actually taking it
serious and making it a big part of my life because I think I
will be really good at it. Why did you choose India to
source the the marble from? So basically I chose India to
source it from because a lady I know well, her family has a
factory there and I love the whole story of like it's the
whole family, the the granddad, the dad.
It's a beautiful story behind it and how the universe kind of put
us together because that's what I wanted to do.
And then she came into my life at a point where I was looking
into that. So I was like, OK, we have met
for a reason. And I love that she works with
her family, her grandparents. And you know, it's, it's not the
cheapest way because it costs a lot for the shipment, which
probably will be a bad idea for me to source in Italy or, but
it's just the way it came around.
I was like, OK, I love this and. And all the particular colors of
marble that are unique to this this quarry.
We could get anything, anything that you think of and you could
1 green or orange or or any colour we can source and she.
Is that all quarried in India? Yes.
Or in India, Yeah, I'm super excited.
Gosh, can't wait to see more now Talking TVI know you can't talk
about your next project, but you starred in several series of
Real Housewives of Cheshire. I did.
So I'm just a little bit curious about that.
How was that? It was fun.
I think I didn't know what I put myself into.
It was, it was amazing. You know, I was young and I
mean, it wasn't that long ago. I think it was 8 years ago.
I think it was. I always looked at like the
Housewives of America, you know, the Beverly Hills Housewives.
I was like, they're having so much fun.
But was it always fun? Because it strikes me there were
some really spiky moments it. Was, yes.
I mean, we had some very spiky moments where, you know, we had
to walk away and we had big arguments and, you know, there
was alcohol involved. There was a lot of manipulation
involved. There was.
Manipulation by the producers. No, by I think also the ladies,
you know, we're doing ATV show so everyone is kind of trying to
portray themselves the best way or, you know, not being amazing
to each other. And, and I think I was a lot of
times put in situation where I was quite verbal and came out
many times very aggressive. And that was also because it was
something new for me. And I was in, I was going
through a separation. I was, you know, with these
women, I didn't know. I was like, no, she's lying.
She's not telling the truth, not knowing that it was a bit of a
game going on. So me coming into this place of
like mentally not being my best self and also thinking, Oh my
God, this is they're playing a game.
No, you're not being honest. That's not what you said that.
But then on TV it comes out like, wow, she's quite feisty.
But but I'm super proud because I love to speak my truth.
And if there's something I feel I will say it.
And I did love that part of it. Would you ever be tempted to do
another series similar to that? Well, well, I can't say much,
but I'm currently working on something that's.
Yeah. But you're not so scarred by
Real Housewives that you would. Never.
Go back into reality TV. I'm, no, I'm not scarred from
it. I'm more like I understood what
was going on with me at the time and I, I now can see back and
understand why certain things or how I was behaving in certain
ways because at the time I didn't know, you know, I was
just living in the moment and thought that that was OK.
But looking back from me now, I'm like, wow, that girl was
actually very sad. And you know, she was a broken
woman. So you.
Find it difficult to watch it again, to watch past episodes?
I don't actually watch it back, but sometimes I feel a bit that
it was OK for me just to be vulnerable and, you know, not
try to be so hard all the time and, you know, be so angry.
And it was OK for me to go through things.
And you know, that's the journey I'm in now.
Got to know that. Are you still in touch with any
of them? I am, yes.
A few. I am, yeah.
Now today we're going on a style journey.
OK. How did you decide your look for
today? I actually changed twice.
So I put, I put a blazer on because I love anything with
like structure. I'm very, I'm, I would say I'm
quite Scandinavian style because obviously my roots, but I too
love to be comfortable. Like that's my main thing.
I think if you're comfortable, you're yourself, you move
better, you speak better, you behave better somehow because
you just feel comfortable. So today I thought, you know,
what would I wear to meet a friend and just have a little
chat with her And that was my decision.
I'd put a cashmere and jeans. And so just talk me through the
look. So this is Vondray necklace,
amazing designer from New York. She does some incredible things.
And this is from Frankie store, also American.
And the jeans are reformation and the boots are mew mew.
Gorgeous and the belt. The belt is actually from Zara.
Cool, yes. So high and low.
High and low, I love the mix. Huh.
Loving it. Loving it.
So you grew up? So I grew up in Sweden, which is
very close to Copenhagen, but I'm from South of Sweden in
Malma, a little cute village, and we have a bridge called
Arzunsbrun which leads us to Copenhagen, which is basically
our airport. So if I fly anywhere, I'd fly
from Copenhagen. And Copenhagen is our kind of
our capital if we're from Malma because Stockholm is so far
away, even though I absolutely love Stockholm.
But growing up, Copenhagen was like the city to be in, like the
fashion, the food, the the opportunities.
And you know, I absolutely loved it there.
So Mama was more provincial, would you say?
Yes, it's a it's a little town. Everyone kind of knows everyone.
It's very sweet, very safe. I mean, it used to be very safe.
Now Sweden has gone a bit, not so safe, but yeah, I loved
growing up there. I had a really nice childhood.
And were you very aware of your parents style growing up?
I was my mum. She was actually the coolest
woman ever. She was always wearing like
cowboy boots, long coats. You know, at that time when I
was like 14, I used to think my mum was super cringy.
I was like. Why do you know everyone does?
I was like, why do you have to wear all these like big coats
and like these boots? I was like, can you just be
casual? She used to have these like kind
of Alessandra Rich looks, you know, the long silky with a
diamond. I was like, why is everything so
a lot? And I was like, I think you need
a wardrobe cleansing. We, we, we're taking everything
out. And now, like, looking back like
five years ago, she was like, I can't believe you let me get rid
of that. That was like on all
Saint-laurent fashion shows and. Now you're I would.
Love to have borrowed that now when?
Do you think was your earliest memory of clothes making you
feel really good? It was quite strange because I
was studying so I went to music school and then I was a bit of,
I was, I was struggling to concentrate.
So I always knew my passion was something creative.
It was clothed, it was music. It was.
And then I was a bit self diagnosed ADHD 'cause I just
couldn't concentrate in school because I felt I, I need more
than this. Like there's, there's something
out there calling me. So that's where my trip start
happening to go to Copenhagen because I interned in this
clothing store, right? And that's where I fell in love
with fashion because I mean, obviously my mom was absolutely
loved clothes, but I interned in a in a shop and they had the
most beautiful clothes. And sometimes they used me to
like try stuff on because I was very skinny and you know, tall,
skinny, young, They're like, can you try this on?
Can you try this on? And I was like, wow, this is
really beautiful and lovely. And it kind of opened my eyes to
a beautiful dress or which I usually wouldn't wear because
I'd have leggings and AT shirt and you know.
But what a wonderful opportunity to try many different things on
because you were then scouted as a model from that store.
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must have had the opportunity to try so many or be dressed in so
many different styles and and designers.
Did that, did that help you work out what you loved?
Your style basically. Yes, I think with my job, being
a model, it's, you know, you always, it's a bit like being an
actress. You're like in a role.
It depends on the brand. It depends on, you know,
sometimes you're very glamorous, sometimes you look a bit
tomboyish, sometimes you're in a wedding dress.
So for me, it's almost like you play a role when you work and it
has really brought me to that. Clothes is also a part of your
identity and it's who you are and it, you know, when you wear
clothes, you feel good you you are more confident, you show up
as yourself. And I always thought that you
should always be authentic. And I think that's the strongest
thing with fashion because, you know, everyone can't love the
same thing and everyone can't look like each other.
And if you have some really cool style and you love a specific
colour, I love that. I love seeing women and men show
personality through their clothes.
Did you ever have one specific shoot or outfit that stood out
to you as being just off the charts?
Yes. I mean, I'm a big fan of
saint-laurent. I think it really resonates with
me, the brand, because it's very sexy, it's very empowering, is
very masculine and I feel that's everything I am.
If someone would ask who is Missy, I'd say that's who I am.
But was there a specific shoot that you discovered
Saint-laurent? Yeah, we had an amazing shoot, I
think it was like 4 years ago where we shot all for
saint-laurent. It was added and I was like,
wow, this is what I forever just want to wear, you know?
It was. It was just so incredible.
Yeah. How old were you when you first
started modelling? I was 19.
OK, so not not. Not super young, super young.
No, I was 19. I was.
It was quite funny because when I was 16 there was ATV show in
TV's been haunting me forever. It wasn't.
I think when I was 16, I had it used to be, do you remember the
show Become a Model? I, I think I'd, I'm sure it was
called that, become a model or something like that.
And they casted me when I was 16 in Sweden to come on the show
where you can fight to become a model.
And I went on a casting for it. And I was like, no, this is not
for me. Like I felt too much pressure.
It was so much girls and so much people and, and then it
happened, you know? It just took you time to
process. Yeah, yeah.
I wonder if anyone has ever compared your look to Cindy
Crawford. You know, you've got this
beautiful mole and there's, there's something to me that
looks very young. Cindy Crawford about you.
Has that, has that ever, have you ever been compared to her?
I think it's been a majority of my career the people would say
she looks like Cindy Crawford and sometimes I was booked for
shoots where, you know, they did the hair and that very similar
like her. And I mean, I take that as a big
compliment because she is. One of the original supers.
She is, and she's so beautiful. And she's also seems, I don't
know her, but she seems like a really nice woman and has
beautiful values. And, you know, yeah, I really
respect her. So I take that as a compliment
every time. Yeah, not that you need one, but
talking about your mole for a moment, I seem to remember there
was a time on Real Housewives that that it became a bit of a
talking point. You was.
Yeah. Well, I went on a show and, you
know, everyone that was on the show, they already knew each
other. And then there was me walking
into this scene. They never saw me.
They never met me. And obviously it was super
childish because what is Mama like a Raisin?
She got Raisin on her face. And I thought that was super
childish. I got really sad about it
because it brought back memories to when I was a child because
when I was in school I was bullied for my mom and for being
skinny. They're like, oh, they used to
make like fun of the mall and I got so skinny legs.
And so it was a bit of which I would never have told anyone on
the housewives that that was actually a thing that really
touched me. Trigger.
It really triggered me.
I've heard that in my whole childhood and, and I thought
that was not acceptable. But but then again, it's, you
know, they gave me airtime, huh? It allowed you?
To it allowed me to be, it allowed me to kind of be me.
And also people didn't think that was OK, which is not OK.
It isn't OK. It's like, especially at our
age, you know, that shouldn't even be a thing, but.
Well, I think you rose above it beautifully.
Yeah. Thank you.
Now I know you were married to Anders Lindegaard.
I was, yes. How did you meet?
Andrews is such a good person. Amazing, amazing guy.
I did a interview in a Danish magazine because I was a bit of
a babe, you know, like starting my model career.
And then I had boobs and, you know, I was quite sexy at that
time because it was a lot of underwear.
Shoots for me. It was a lot of like underwear
shoots. So I did this spread on this
Danish magazine where they interviewed me and stuff and he
was ordering that magazine every month.
So he saw me and then a friend connected us and and then we
start talking. At the time I was living in
Milan and then we I had a shoot in Copenhagen and then we kind
of both flew there and met and then we never left each other
since. Oh my goodness, what did you
wear for your first date with him?
I think I was very casual actually.
I think I was wearing silk, silk pants and a tank top.
I'm sure. Yeah, it was a super casual,
like, yeah, I do love silk trousers.
I think they're very good. They are good.
They've been. Having done them all my career,
I can, I can. Say that I love silk trousers.
And what did you wear to marry? It was a beautiful dress.
It's the brand. I can never pronounce it.
It's Albaugh Grower. They just specialized in wedding
dresses, and he's absolutely beautiful.
I actually had two dresses. Oh, describe them to me.
He was very much just who I was, you know, he was quite the first
one was topless and. Topless or strapless?
Hopefully it was strapless. Surprise me if I shut up.
Emma wedding topless. What kind of just be like there
she is? Of course she did that.
Of course she shows up topless. I love it.
Okay, so there you are. There I am, strapless.
So my first look was strapless. Very classic, beautiful,
incredible. I loved it.
And the next one was a very V open satin, beautiful work,
beautiful flowers. Yeah, it was, It was.
And we wore no shoes, so we were bare feet.
You. Were.
Wear Mauritius on the beach. On the beach.
Yeah, yeah, it was beautiful. It was very beautiful.
Beautiful. So you spent a little bit of
time being a WAG? I did, yes.
Did your style change at all during that time?
I mean, it didn't change. I think I just was not really.
It was kind of the time, you know, when the Balmain jackets,
the leather jacket was like the look and the, the tie jeans, the
Fleur jeans, the high heels, the small bags.
That was the look. Then, you know, I think I had
every Balmain jacket you could possibly have.
Favorite ones? I love the the blazer, the
leather blazer with the golden buttons.
You know the nice shoulder pads? Do you still wear those?
I do, you know, I have, I'm a key piece person.
So rather me go and buying loads of stuff all the time.
I kind of love to keep my key pieces and include them in my
closet. And and and honestly looks like
brand new. Yeah.
So they're, they're so beautifully made during your
time on Real Housewives, that must have put quite a lot of
pressure on you, on your wardrobe.
Did you ever work with a stylist during that time?
I did, yeah. So I work till this day.
I work with her. And it was funny because we met
at cricket. There was an amazing store in
Liverpool called Cricket Fashion and I would always go there and
order stuff and they had the most beautiful stuff.
It was they had so much of it. It is.
Legendary, isn't it? That store, it is so incredible,
that store. And I used to be overwhelmed
because they just had everything, like everything you
could possibly think of. They had it and she could source
anything. So my stylist actually work
there as a personal shopper and then she helped me with
everything and became my personal stylist and now she has
an incredible career. She styles some really big
women. And you still work with her
despite the fact that she's in Liverpool.
How does that work? She's international now, she
left cricket, build a beautiful career.
She work with some of the biggest fashion models now and
her fashion houses and you know she still helps me till today
are. You going to share her name?
She's called Danny. Danny Stylist.
Yeah, she's very amazing. Talking about social media, do
you handle all your own social posting?
I do because I actually don't post as much as my agent would
want me to tell me about it. I think I have a quite a healthy
relationship to my social media at the minute where is much
about that I will not work with anyone that I don't resonate to
and or feel the energy from or that they in line with my
branding. Because when I was younger, I
used to always have this thing about, you know, working,
working, working as a machine. But I'd say 10 years ago, I
think that's why I still work so much because I, I put value to
my name and I wouldn't just work with anyone.
And you know, the fast fashion brands and all this just for a
post. And I really think it's, it's a
fine line for me. Are you?
Conscious of dressing for different audiences.
So for example, if you're going on a casting, or you're coming
here, or you're going to an event.
I I dress for myself and for for girls.
I think it's very much about when I dress well and I feel my
hair is good and my I feel more confident and I think that
mirrors everything. So if you say you're going to a
job interview and when you walked out, you didn't feel
comfortable and you felt not like yourself and the heels are
a bit uncomfortable and and then you walk into the job interview,
you're not going to be yourself because you will think about
what happened. So it's a bit, that's how I kind
of live my life now. And I think that's how I also
dress that I always put myself first to be like, well, I'm
going to dress sexy tonight because I'm going on a date or
for dinner with my friends. And then I'd put a really sexy
dress where I feel really good about it.
And everyone else will be like, Missy, you look incredible.
And that's coming because it's coming from me, from the inside.
So what is date Night Misty wearing?
I, I totally wear a dress, probably something black.
What do you call it? Yes.
And then I'm, I'm a bit like, I go from really high end sexy to
absolute hippie to like linen trousers, flip flops and just a
T-shirt. And so I I have that balance of
style and I love that. And do you plan your looks ahead
of time? So Danny would make a closet for
me. We say me working on TV or me
doing, you know, now I'm back. I have a lot of appearances.
I have a lot of people I'm going to see where then she plans in
my closet and we go through what I want to wear and then she
source everything she thinks I would love and then we go
through the looks and then he's just so much easier for me.
And then does she photograph you in everything?
Yes, and then she sends me the look.
She's very strict because I try to be a bit spicy sometimes.
I think this will actually look great with that.
She's like stick to the schedule when?
Do you feel you really discovered your style DNA?
Quite young, you know. I think I was probably 20.
That's not that young to be very 20.
Two actually quite young to work out sort of who you are
stylistically in my experience. Yeah, I'd say around 2425,
right, Yeah. And if someone, if Danny was to
describe your style DNA in three words, what 3 words would you
want those to be? Sexy, comfortable and chic.
Let's say chic like that. What would you say you reach for
when you want to feel empowered? I just think about also my
children, you know, it's like the biggest achievement to give
birth to these two incredible people.
And you know, the women, what we do and what we put our bodies
through and we show up every day to our children.
And I think that's super empowering because no matter
what you do is being a mom is one of the most empowering thing
for me. Who would you consider to be
your style icon? You know, I had this
conversation with a friend and I and we were talking about this
and I told her I was like, I don't actually have a specific
person that will come into my mind when I think, Oh my God,
she is something I just want to be like, or I would take it down
to say, you know what? My mom is someone who inspires
me daily, and people inspire me daily because you know it.
Everyday I see different people, different styles.
It could be anyone. So for me, I'd love to say a
specific person, but I don't have that.
Yeah, yeah. You're a super successful model.
Your looks are a currency to a degree.
How do you feel about the ageing process?
When I turned 30, I had a bit of a Oh my God, I'm 30 like how's
this happened 30 I'm 30. I could not get it into my mind
that I was 30 because it just felt like, especially with my
job, it felt like wow, OK, you're 30 now, girl like.
But when I was got to 32, I, I just embraced it because I felt
like I was putting this pressure on myself to look young and be
young. I went, I did like fillers on my
cheeks and I dissolved it because I thought, what am I
doing? It's OK.
It's OK to age. And I've got into a really
healthy routine of my vitamins, of my NAD drops, of my vitamin
drops. And you know, living a healthy
lifestyle and having healthy people around you changes
everything. That sounds very, very
refreshing. Do you find it inspiring to see
the Cindy Crawfords of this world still modelling?
It does. I I think is I'm so happy that
we're living in this time of that everyone is acceptable and
it doesn't matter age, a shape, a colour, nothing is because
when I start muddling when you had a child, you was out.
It was like she's got a baby, she's old, she's old now, she
can't get you know where is changed now and is so empowering
and to see all the 90s models they that they are still doing
all the covers and working they're.
Spectacular. Aren't they?
They're spectacular. And you can't.
You can't replace that, can you? No, I, I, I think it's
inspiring. I really do.
Yeah. Would you consider yourself to
be high maintenance or low maintenance?
I'd love to say low, but I think high.
I'd love to say very low, but I I I can be quite.
What is your highest maintenance?
I just like things to be like nice and organised and.
But is it hair? Is it facials?
Is it body treatments? Is it manicures?
All of it yeah, all of it. I your high maintenance.
I love nice hair, I love good nails.
I I think it's just been feeling great and it's not, everyone
doesn't have to, you know, it's not a pressure, but it's a
personality thing. When do you think you really
became high maintenance Missy I? Think I always was.
I think I always was. So you looked after your skin as
a teenager? And all of that I I was quite
lucky to not have the whole acne phase, but I did struggle with
my weight always. I did never could put weight on
and yeah. Yeah, you must be the first
person that sat here so I could never put what you told.
Me, yeah, it was a it still is a little bit of a problem like I
have to eat certain things I have to have drinks on the side
of my meal where it's extra to put weight on yeah, it's.
You will be the envy of a lot of a lot of people.
Going back to clothes, do you have one item of clothing that
means the most to you, that's sort of sentimental to you?
I did. I don't have so much.
I have a lot of clothes, but sentimentally I'd say isn't.
It was, it's not clothes. It was actually a watch.
Could you justify that as a yeah?
Absolutely. And what?
It is a watch that my brother got me.
Yeah, that was like my one thing that I never wanted to lose or
get rid of. I often talk about clothes being
our armour and I know you and I have both tragically lost a
brother, which is big, losing a sibling.
And I just wonder if you remember, did you reach for
anything in particular in your early days of of grieving and
loss to cocoon you and to comfort you?
I remember after the incident, few days after I, we went to
Cotswolds just to have a bit of peace and quiet.
And I remember I wear this very big teddy coat, like from head
to toe, kind of big, big coat. And I think that's all I wore
for like a week. Yeah.
It's like a big, heavy cocooning, cocooning coat.
Yeah. Comforting.
Comforting, yeah. You live an incredibly busy
life. I do.
We've talked about you having a stylist, but do you keep your
wardrobe beautifully organized? So yes, you know, I got rid of a
lot of a lot of stuff, you know, gave them away, had them in
storage and it was just a lot of clothes that was not needed and
used and. Well, how did you dispose of
them? So I, I gave them away to
friends, families, you know, just.
Lucky girls. Yeah, and now I'm more about the
simplicity, you know, what do I wear?
What do I want to wear? What can I mix and match?
How can I be sustainable? How can I keep a minimalistic
closet? Because a lot of times, you
know, brands, I work with brands, so I don't actually keep
a lot of the stuff, which is great because you don't need it.
Yeah, so it gets sent back. It gets sent back, yeah.
So that's why I love working with a stylist because you're
not wasting clothes also. Would you say you had a worst
fashion moment? Oh my God, yes.
You're going to share it with me?
It was so bad. I would, I couldn't find this.
I I wish I couldn't go into Google and just erase so many
pictures. I'm like, that's not me, that's
not me, that's not me. Which was the worst?
One I was wearing like a a blazer.
I mean I don't know what was worse.
Everything was bad like the makeup, the hair, the face, the
blazer. I was wearing these like shiny
Burberry low cut boots but everything, nothing matched.
I was just, it was a mess. It was so bad.
And when? What was that moment for?
Was that part of Real Housewives?
No, it was actually appearance for like a big red carpet.
It was like a red carpet moment. But that wasn't a Danny stylist
moment. No, it was a Missy moment
because I, I, I don't know what I thought when I, when I did
that, I was in a hurry. I, I, I wasn't again,
comfortable not thinking through it, not thinking how I felt in
the moment. And I just was like, I take
this, I take this, it's fine. It was like, it will work, but
it really didn't work. And the minute I stepped out of
the house, I was like, wow, I hate this outfit.
I knew it's going to be a disaster and he was a disaster.
But can you just describe? OK, we've heard about the shiny
boots. Just describe the rest of it to.
Me, he he, he was a shiny white boot and he was in like a long
boot. You know when he's like to.
Mid calf. Mid calf, it was like mid calf
with a short blazer and the blazer was like check and the
the IT was a lot of makeup going on and pulled hair.
It was just not good. Let's talk about travel.
Travel, yeah. Do you pay particular attention
to your travel look? I comfortable, I'd say when I
travel I like to still look chic, though.
I like a little cute. Maybe cotton trousers with a top
and a blazer and an ice bag. Yeah.
And bag of choice. I love Hermes, I love Bottega.
I love very much. Like leather bags?
Yeah. How many bags would you say you
own? I have a lot of bags, but when I
moved to Spain I put everything into storage because I was like,
you know what? I don't need nothing, I'm just
going to me and me without nothing.
And have you pulled all of those bags out of storage?
Yes, not all of them, but I have a lot left in my storage that I
need to get organised with and Danny's helping me with that
now. OK, so confession time.
Yeah. How many designer bags?
I'd say like over 30, yeah. And as you sort them out, will
you sell any of them? It's happened that I exchanged
yes, because I do think is it can get quite toxic to keep like
getting new stuff and I think it's quite refreshing.
If you're not used something for like a while, I think it's OK
for you to swap it to something else because it's just sitting
there in your closet doing absolutely nothing.
Coming back to travel, are you a good Packer?
Bad Packer. Over Packer.
And what do you over pack into? I just put I build these
scenarios in my head that always need more clothes than I do.
I could go for a weekend like just now went for a weekend and
the stuff I've packed, I'm like you going away for two nights.
I over pack every single time and I never learn.
I just pack so much stuff and. What luggage do you use?
So I use Rimowa but but it's just a.
Lot of rimowa. Yeah, a lot of it, but also it's
because it's just, I don't know why, why girls do that.
Because there's nothing more frustrating than the thing that
you'd like to wear sitting at home in your wardrobe.
And I can't decide like, do I need one perfume or do I need 3?
You know, it's like that. Bad that.
Bad. I'm like no I one perfume.
No, I might actually need this smell for this.
Lunch. So we've talked about bags.
What, if anything else, do you feel like you've got an
excessive amount of in your wardrobe?
I love jeans. I'm very much a jeans girl.
I have a lot of Blazers and I do love a cashmere top.
Quite. Yeah, a lot of cashmere.
Quite a lot of cashmere so cosy. So in terms of guilty secret,
what brand would you say is your guilty secret and why?
I hate to say it but it is Zara sometimes.
And why do you hate to say it? It's like they just get it right
sometimes it's it's. But that's great, isn't?
It it's it just works like you know you need it.
Quick fix. Or you need this or you need
this. It's just accessible and is easy
to get. To be fair, I prefer Massimo
duty, which is like in the same chain.
Yeah, but yeah, I'd say that. And if I would say to you, you
can only dress in two brands for the rest of your life. 1 High. 1
High Street. 1 High End. 1 High Street.
OK. Which two brands would they be?
Definitely saint-laurent as High End is my top one, and High
Street would probably have to be that, wouldn't it?
Zara? Yeah, yeah, because they just do
everything. They nail it, but actually nail
it. Yeah, let's spin on to
sustainable fashion. What's your approach to being
sustainable? I love that it's being really
talked about and that people is taking this so much more serious
now and the impact is is growing.
I am I'm not very much a supporter of the first the you
know, I'm I'm very love my linen and, you know, I'm a very girl
next door and. Do you?
Are you very conscious of looking at the labels of the
clothes that you buy? To be honest, not always, which
is not maybe the best thing because with my job it's always
so fast, you know? But I am very conscious of where
things are being made. And I think a lot of times, you
know, you know, if you work in this industry and you know
where, which brand is where from where it's been made, what the
background is. And for me like not paying your
workers and using all these animals is just a no go for me.
So do you have a buy vintage? I do.
I love vintage. I'm a vintage hunter.
Are you where? Where are your favorite haunts?
So Barcelona has great vintage, great vintage.
France have great vintage. I really wanted to make a trip
to New York to do some vintage shopping because they have
amazing stuff, but you can also now see them online which is
great. And what about in London?
London, yes, so Notting Hill is great.
I've actually got 2 Blazers from saint-laurent from the market in
Portobello Rd. She's so good, the lady there,
they have some incredible suits. And I love that it's just got a
different cut. And, you know, you go in there,
you buy a beautiful suit for £100 and it, it feels like
original and the cuts are beautiful.
And yeah, I love it. And I have a lot of distracted
leather jackets. That's vintage distressed.
Oh, see. And they're very distracting to
look at. Do you understand why people
want me on TV? They're like, what did she say?
I love it, I love it, right? We're going to spin on to some
quick fire questions here. What fashion advice would you
give your 20 year old self? To not overthink everything and
just, you know, go with the go with the flow, be comfortable,
be yourself, and don't care about what anyone thinks or says
about you. Good advice.
Which fashion trend or era would you like to see make a comeback?
90s. What fashion or beauty trend
would you consign to Room 101? So that's you'd put it in the
bin. I just hate this whole like hate
is a strong word but I dislike this whole like let's look lazy
and we don't care and super tracksuit all the time and
everyone kind of looking like each other is just not cool.
Your last impulse by. I actually went shopping with
yesterday with Danny and I got this beautiful black jacket from
the Monet. Monet.
She's actually one of my friends, but she has a beautiful
brand called the. I'm probably pronouncing it
wrong. She's going to hate me, but the
main, the main, that's what it is.
The main. Your views on tattoos.
I have tattoos so but two of them was super tragic because I
made them, I got them when I was very young and my mom was not
impressed. But I'm I'm going to actually
get a tattoo here. A little heart, red, Red heart.
I don't mind. It and the meaning of that.
Is for my brother, yeah. Oh lovely beauty treatment, you
couldn't give up. I do my Botox, which I love, and
then I couldn't give up. Facials.
I, I love facials. I love, I just love anything to
do with beauty, to be honest with you.
High end or High Street? High end.
Bling or bear? Bare.
Minimalism or maximalism? Minimalism.
Couture or charity shop? My personality is very like I
told you, I love high end, but I also love me being my hippie
self. You know it's.
Crocs cute or puke, You're looking at me.
Puke. Sneakers or stilettos?
Stilettos. Birkin or Chanel?
Birkin. Boyfriends or wide legs?
Sorry, boyfriends or wide legs as in jeans?
I was so confused. I was like, what wide legs?
Body corn or boho? Boho.
Sports Lux or Rock chick? Rock Chick.
Red carpet or relax? Relax.
Trend or style? Style.
Cashmere or cotton? Cashmere.
Order or editor? Recently like editing out of my
wardrobe, yes. Charity shop or resale?
A charity shop. Shapewear or sexy lingerie?
Sexy lingerie. Tights or stockings?
Stockings. Bikini or one piece bikini?
And finally, traditional last question at the end of the day,
what do you or don't you wear in bed?
I do not wear much in bed. I wear underwear like, yeah, I
don't, I don't. I don't like wearing anything in
bed. I just like to feel the sheet
and feel a bit cold and cosy, yeah.
Sounds good. Yeah, Missy, thank you so much
for your time today. I love today, it's been amazing.
Really enjoy. This conversation and lovely to
see you again, yeah. You too.