The Blüthner piano is a gift from John Taylor (bassist with Duran Duran) and his wife Gela Nash-Taylor (co-founder of Juicy Couture), who lived with them for several months. Some of those friends have ended up staying for weeks on end. “It’s always been family and close friends first.” “To be honest, I’m not sure lockdown changed my life that much,” she says. Yasmin is phone-phobic, and not exactly mad on Zoom. “If anyone can pull it off, she will.” She hadn’t been in touch yet with Campbell when I asked. She takes her hat off to Naomi Campbell, who recently announced she’d become a mother at 50. She and Simon, 62, are hands-on grandparents. Her two grandchildren, Skye and Taro, call their impossibly youthful-looking granny Zsa Zsa. “I would have kept the grey, but a job came through and they asked me to dye it brown.”Īlthough by her own admission she regularly has a sprinkling of Botox, that’s more or less it. She has donated mountains of clothing to charity but, even so, the Le Bons are currently availing themselves of two storage facilities nearby.ĭuring lockdown she did give up the fight against grey roots, though they’re now covered. When she’s pulling out the stops, she exudes a loose, polished flair that flies from boho (she loves Isabel Marant and Preen) to rock chic, taking in androgynous tailoring. Today, she’s make-up free, her hair is long and she’s wearing a pair of skinny Made in Heaven jeans, a Gucci T-shirt celebrating The Lady Garden (a charity raising awareness about gynaecological cancers), the “Elton John-worthy” socks Valerie gave her (the Le Bons are big on flamboyant socks) and a pair of fluffy lime slippers. “I used to do a lot of jumble-sale shopping before it was called thrift and I loved photography, so I guess you develop an eye.” Notwithstanding the close-knit family she’s nurtured, the 36-year marriage, and the 40-year career that’s still going strong (she recently appeared in a shoot for British Vogue), part of her feels frustrated. At 19, she took herself off to Models 1 in London, where she’s been ever since. At 17, she was scouted in Oxford by a local agent. Sure, she worked day and night, but it all came quite easily. It strikes me that she views her modelling career as, at best, a passive achievement. “I’m a rubbish multi-tasker.” When you’re that beautiful and successful and a well-brought-up Brit (while her photographer father is Iranian, she grew up in Oxford), it’s practically de rigueur to undersell yourself. “Check out the dead Christmas trees,” laughs Yasmin, gesturing towards the two pots and their brown, drooping contents by the front door.
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