The number of bottles of Bollinger drunk in the UK every year. I really was at the epicentre of London life then. And it was absolutely fabulous. The Eighties were a boom time for London fashion.
Supermodels Linda, Naomi and Christy walked the catwalk. It really was the ultimate Ab Fab moment. Behind the scenes, it was exhausting and often hysterically funny. I had one of the earliest clunky mobiles, on which I would speak constantly in the back of my chauffeur-driven Jag and continue using as I walked through the office, even if the people I was speaking to were just ahead of me.
And, yes, everyone partied a lot back then. At the end of each year we had a Lynne Franks Christmas do. It was a riotous evening. I suspect it went on to inspire the episode of Ab Fab where Edina puts on a catwalk show only to have several celebrities drop out. At the time I was obsessed with acid house music - I wore a primary-coloured tracksuit and cap and had very short orange hair - despite being She was an ex-hippie mother with a sad, straight daughter, who went on to become the infamous Saffy.
Soon after meeting me, she made friends with a number of designers and noticed that when they gave out clothes samples, they were usually a tiny size As a result, while Edina is always wearing the latest thing, it never quite fits. The look is fabulous, over-the-top and directional, but horribly small. Ironically, the fashion world ended up adoring Absolutely Fabulous. I remember being invited to dinner by the editor of Vogue to find a gaggle of fashionistas huddled around a TV set giggling at the new comedy.
It was rather strange listening to them laugh at the lead character - supposedly based on me - when I was sitting only yards away. Lynne remembers being invited to dinner by the editor of Vogue to find a gaggle of fashionistas huddled around a TV set giggling at the new comedy. Indeed, designer Christian Lacroix appeared in one episode and allowed Edina to fall at his feet and then walked away with her still attached.
One of my biggest regrets is turning down a cameo in an early episode - I was over-sensitive about it all in those days. Now, 24 years after the original series, I can recognise just how many details mirror my own life. It was almost like Jennifer could read my mind. But back in the early Nineties, Jennifer was clearly plugged into the Lynne Zeitgeist, like the episode when Edina joins Menopause Anonymous just as I was going through my own menopause. I didn't know what I was doing.
After 25 years, five seasons and a host of special appearances as Patsy and Eddie, both women know exactly what they're doing. To the point where another television series held no interest. We need another television series' and there wasn't really going to be a television series," Lumley says. The idea of a film had been floating around for some time, with rumours regularly surfacing in the British press.
Eventually, Saunders' agent insisted she either do it or shut the rumours down. And although the film shares the spirit and silliness of the original series, making it was a very different process. But although the film doesn't feature the live audience of the TV series, it does feature just about everyone else.
Every core cast member returned for the big-screen version, along with a host of former guest stars and celebrity cameos, including Kate Moss, Gwendoline Christie, Joan Collins and more. As always, it is a female-centric affair. But despite female-led comedy having become a major talking point in Hollywood recently, Saunders says she never set out to wave a flag.
Panorama 11 November Clangers 16 November Cathy Come Home 16 November The Singing Detective 16 November Panorama interview with Princess Diana 20 November Start of television broadcasts from the House of Commons 21 November First TV gardening programme 21 November Edina "Eddy" Monsoon and Patsy Stone are a pair of high-powered career women in the fashion industry: Eddy runs her own PR firm, and Patsy holds a sinecure at a fashion magazine.
The two women use their considerable financial resources to indulge in a life revolving around alcohol, recreational drugs, and chasing the latest fads in an attempt to maintain their youth and recapture their glory days as mods in Swinging London. The partnership is largely driven by Patsy, who functions as both codependent and enabler to Eddy.
Their lifestyle inevitably leads to a variety of personal crises, which are invariably taken care of by Eddy's young daughter, Saffron , whose constant abuse at the hands of Eddy and Patsy has left her a bitter, cynical teenager and later twenty-something who nonetheless continues to care for her mother out of a sense of unconditional love. Main article: List of characters.
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