SUSIE CAVE

Celebrated as a model for her alabaster complexion and jet-black hair, Cave (above) regularly graced these pages in the 1990s, before finding her métier as a fashion designer with her label the Vampire’s Wife. On page 202 the winner of our Breakthrough Designer award explains the secret of her success: ‘If I wouldn’t wear it, I wouldn’t sell it.’

Your woman of the year ‘Salma Hayek, who is fronting a charity I am involved with, mothers2mothers, that fights paediatric Aids in Africa.’

A woman you call to have fun with ‘Bella Freud, Dominique Issermann and Polly Borland are my dear friends, whose influence over my life has been monumental. I feel a pang of shame that I haven’t called them in a long time, so maybe they will read this and forgive me and know that I love them.’ A woman you would like to have met ‘Marilyn Monroe. She once talked about

“running into people’s unconscious”. What an extraordinary thing to say!’