Grayson Perry: Working with Louis Vuitton
The artist Grayson Perry is resplendent, dressed in a suitably stern, black-lace day suit with boxy jacket and signature short, bouncing skirt over an ivory silk pussy-bow blouse. "This is what I call my art-collector outfit," he says. "It reminds me of those really well-groomed women who want lots of detail. I like a bit of detail.
"It's also a sexy little-girl version of Mrs Thatcher, as near as I'm going to get to a proper suit. A lot of my outfits stand out so strongly – or at least I stand out so strongly in them – that people shout at me from aeroplanes."
On his shoulder he carries a gleaming patent-leather Louis Vuitton bag ("well, it would be wrong not to") that works nicely with shiny Mary Jane shoes. His blunt, honey-blond bob is blow-dried straight and his nails, like any self-respecting lady's, are painted bright red. "I can get it down to an hour to get ready now," he says. "But that's rushing it... I like to take my time."
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