The British designer explores the ups and downs of his life in a new book that chronicles his work with iconic talents.
Promising Young Woman
He takes no credit for his daughters’ successes. “I think because we were grafters, they became grafters, and they thought, ‘Well, work does make you happier and it does make you have some sort of self-respect.’” His twin sisters, Claire and Ginny, eight years his senior, were barely present—“We were rather on the periphery of each other’s lives”—though all three now are close. In the holidays, with his parents “in India or Malaya or wherever”, Fennell stayed on at school, or was dispatched to the care of Great Aunt Nellie or Great Aunt Dubberty, “whose whole house smelt of boiled heart”. Occasionally, he’d fly to join his parents, under the care of a stewardess on BOAC.
Only twice does Fennell turn truly serious. The first is when discussing education—“Children aren’t channelled in the right direction,” he laments. “There aren’t people there to say, ‘Fred, forget the Latin. Forget the maths. Here’s a screwdriver. Get on with it.’” Sobriety was “practically difficult, because I was a known carouser and I assumed that that was part of who I was and what I did, as so many alcoholics do”, he says. “You know, ‘Will anybody ever talk to me again? Will I ever go to a party again? Will I ever make anybody laugh again?’ I didn’t know the practicalities and the logistics of not drinking.
“It’s really transformed my life. Not necessarily the business side,” he adds. “I didn’t become a far better designer or a far brighter businessman… I just had a much nicer life and a family that I could stay with and be with, which is the single most important thing, really, for anyone.”
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