Tell us who you are, what you do, and a bit about your background if you had like 60 seconds.

seconds.Okay. I've been a hairdresser for 51 years this year.

I started, um, uh, in salons in London.

I, I, I either went quickly on to doing shoots for Vogue magazine.

That was one of my first shoots.

So that was, you know, 50 years ago.

And, uh, I, uh, I have been doing magazine covers, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Vogue covers, hundreds and thousands of, of, uh, fashion shows for the likes of Chanel and Vivienne Westwood and Tom Ford and Balmain, and, oh, I've done Gucci, Prada, uh, pretty much everyone.

Yes.

There's no union

... there's no union.

Well, there is.

This is my, this is where I was going with this.

There is a union here called Bectu, who represent the film industry, and they've just started to take on the fashion industry.

And I think it's fantastic.

It's, it's really wonderful because they really are there to back you up, make sure everything is being done properly fr- from rates, from conditions to health and safety, which is really important.

What keeps you up with AI? What is your concern with AI?

How did you go from growing up in a mining town in Scotland to becoming the top hairdresser in the fashion industry for maybe 40 years? Is that right?

Well, it's actually 50 years this year.

Yeah, this is my 50th year of being a hairdresser.

Incredible.

I know, I just said it out loud.

I went to, I'm from a mining village in the southwest of Scotland called Newcomenock.

It's like a little council estate dropped into the beautiful green hills of southwest Scotland.

You just conjure up these things and you're such a maker, you know, watching how you shape these incredible kind of beautiful creations that you make with people's hair.