Dress up or dress down?

I am someone who loves clothes, fashion and designers. Whether I am dressing up or down I just really to try to do both as well as I can. If I’m dressing down I love wearing really fabulous jeans from someone like citizens of humanity with a gorgeous top from Chloe or Celine and great dressy shoes. If I’m dressing up I’ll definitely throw on a dress and some jewellery and a pair of Manolos. I love young designers. My friend Hamish Bowles, who is a work colleague from American Vogue, recently introduced me to the French designer Society Room, which is ‘Demi-couture’. I am just desperate to get one of their navy silk blouses and tiered skirts – for when we can all go out again.

I also love wearing great clothes for riding: another friend, Claudia Rothermere, introduced me to the equestrian line Miasuki which is out of Milan – you have never seen such incredibly chic and technical riding clothes.

Cocktail hour means?

I don’t drink very elaborate cocktails because too much alcohol actually makes me feel rather ill, but I absolutely love a Hendrick’s gin and tonic with masses of ice, lime and fresh mint.

On my playlist?

Mozart’s Serenade in Bb major, the adagio section. I can’t really work Spotify or any online streaming music things, it's too much aggro, so I’m stuck with classical music on the radio, which I love.

My dinner table is never without?

I always start my table with the tablecloth. I really feel that tablecloths are a bit of an obsession for me. I have tablecloths that I have made on my sewing machine using everything from old chintz to vintage liberty prints to French stripes. I have had times in my life when sewing tablecloths by hand has really helped me, because it is so calming to sit and sew – when I was ill a few years ago I sewed masses of tablecloths for my friends! Recently, I helped create a very chic tablecloth with my mother Valerie Goad who is a designer and my sister Alice who works in fashion.

I wanted something that was actually precisely fitted to the dining table and had beautiful lines, with a frill that swept the floor, and Valerie designed the most beautiful, pure cotton floral print tablecloth that has about 300 pleats around the edge, and takes about 15 yards of fabric. It is the most elaborate thing and looks like a Couture ball gown for the table. Valerie has had quite a few orders since my friends have seen mine, and her seamstress, Sue Duddy, who has worked with her for over 30 years, makes them all by hand. Sue Doesn’t complain about a lot but she did message my mother saying that “those pleats drove me nearly mad”.