As he

eases into retirement after his role as a Fifties dressmaker in his ‘final’ film, Phantom Thread, Daniel Day-Lewis has found his crash course as a couturier has stood him in good stead domestically. Day-Lewis, 60, married to writer Rebecca Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur, says: ‘I have to do all the sewing in the house. I’m good at mending things. I got quite good at buttonholes.’