What would you save if your house was on fire? One of the great, fail-safe questions of the fashion journalist. There's no stylist, singer, designer or actress you can't put it to.
Even the biggest divas aren't too snitty to tell you what they'd grab from the wardrobe, shoe-stand or jewellery box in the event of an emergency. Useful as it is hypothetically though, it's not the sort of thing you think you'll ever see in real life. But last Tuesday I was on holiday, and the place we were staying in caught fire.
One minute we were all singing along to Supertramp, the next there was smoke everywhere. As the adults were running around yelling, and trying to google the Spanish word for "fire'', the eldest daughter of the house ran upstairs to her bedroom and filled a bin bag with essentials.
What does an almost 13-year-old rescue in the event of a conflagration? Her mother's wedding dress and her grandfather's sailing jersey. The dress was a Vivienne Westwood pink silk tartan with a corset and a bustle, proof not only of her mother's good taste, but her daughter's excellent style instincts in saving it.
When she took the fishing jersey out of the bag, we wet ourselves laughing. Her grandfather is a big chap, it was about 10 times too big for her.
