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'Exactly.' It is spectacularly manipulative marketing but goddamn it, she did make not using a plastic bag fashionable, which has to be good. And it did a lot better than my own invention, the 'I am not a canvas bag' plastic bag, which wasn't intended as a limited edition but became so once my marker pen had run out. Still on sale return to tiffany shift very many, though.Her business began when she was 18, during what was meant to be a gap year in Italy, but turned into something else when she noted an over-the-shoulder drawstring duffel bag all the cool Italian girls were wearing. 'I took the bag home and showed my friends and family and they all loved it.' Eventually, she sold 500 through an offer in Harpers & Queen, and made ￡7,000, 'so it was "sod university".' And then, I ask, you started designing your own bags? 'Yes, ' she says. But how did you know you could do it? She says she didn't. 'But I didn't know I couldn't do it either.'She now has 51 stores globally and, in a peculiar kind of way, is enjoying the recession. 'It gets the adrenalin going, ' she says. 'London had a paralysis moment in November/December where I had people in my office asking if we should take our money out of the banks, and I remember thinking:"Christ, if everyone does that, it's the end."But now London is completely buzzing, and our sales are up on last year. It's inflated by the exchange rate so the on sale frank gehry Europeans, the Americans, and the Japanese have all benefited. Also, people who have mortgages are sitting pretty right now and paying very little, so there is also all that going on.'After lunch, it's off to her Sloane Street store where she takes my virginity, bagwise. How was it for me? Lovely. Anya is kind, warm, gentle and didn't laugh at me once. She also tries to give me the wallet that matches the bag. 'Oh, I couldn't, ' I say, before quickly snaffling it up. One can't have integrity all the time. It can be almost as tiring as sneering.

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