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Cath Kidston

lines on the record: 55
first: 2011-04-24
most recent: 2011-04-24
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“I think I'd probably have to go for the Monty Python song. Strangely, I know it might drive me mad, but it is, I shouldn't say it drive me mad because you want to hear it the whole time, but it does just sort of a pit of myth. I think I'd need that song.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I could work that one out because I could make one fire and make a kettle out of something. I'm sure I'd work out a way of heating the hot water bottle up.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This was really difficult because there was two things I was really torn by what to choose and normally I think I would go for pen and paper if I'm allowed pen and paper because everything I do I write down and I'm always Touched a piece of pen and paper, but then I thought about her, and the one thing if I thought really it needs to be a luxury because I could write in the sand, and so the one thing I really, really hate being cold at night, and whenever I go away even to the hottest place I notice it's normally quite cold in the middle of the night, I think I might have to take a water bottle with me.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Bearing in mind that I'm worried I'm going to be bored I thought for a long time now I've wished that I could speak a proper language like French I half mastered agein I could nearly speak French. and that I'm completely hopeless now and it drives me mad because I've got lots of French friends. And so I thought if I took the big la Ruse with me, I could sit there and learn French.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's just how can I describe Bobdylin? There's an emotion in it. There's a sort of a sense of melancholy which is also quite happy. I'm very inarticulate today, but there's something about it that's incredibly comforting and thought provoking, and I think that's why I'd need it.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'd have to have a little bit of Bobdylin, I think like lots of people on the island, and I particularly like this song of his which is Be Your Baby tonight on the”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think he'd probably be amazed, actually. The reality of I think most of my family are amazed. If I think they all find it quite amusingly stagger that, you know, I was really pretty hopeless when I left school and in my early twenties, and the fact that I've turned out to actually manage to do something I think is is not a tool that was expected.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But then I'd need to be kept busy somehow, so I'd have to think of something, some project that kept me occupied and gave me a bit of routine.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I'll be busy to begin with because I obviously got house to make. Will you do that? Will you style? The first thing I'd do is style the house up. I'd make the house and make it as comfortable as possible. And then I think I'd be designing a raft to escape, I must say. I know you're not meant to, but I'd be definitely thinking about that”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No aspiration to that but yet, having said that, if someone wants to do that, I'm all for saying well that's their choice and that's up to them.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely, we've had people wanting to stab us and all the rest. I think you have to, if you're going to do something, you've got to be honest to yourself and I do what I like for myself and I don't expect everyone to like it. And I think if you do something that's got quite a strong personality which our products have, then you can't expect everyone to like it. If you had to come to my house in London we got a very plain modern kitchen and the way I see it is I've got this very contemporary kitchen with big glass walls and all the rest of it but if I lay the table I've got all my flowery china and my apron and that I like'cause I can change the pace of what I want and I live in a family home and I don't expect her to be flowers everywhere I don't want to harp back to how my grandmother lived at all”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On the island I definitely need something that reminds me of England. I love travelling and I love going away more than anything on earth, but I know that I would miss home and I'd miss England a lot. And this song always look on the bright side of life is kind of relentlessly cheerful, which could drive me mad, but also I think I'd need a bit of this.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think it's true. It's very primitive, isn't it, underneath we think we're very sophisticated and off buying all these kind of fine things and doing this or that but the end of the day were animals, I think.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I would never, I'm sure, have had my business if I'd brought up children in a way my business has been a bit like a replacement child. I've had to do that to fill that gap. And it served me in that way. And I'm sure if you said to me now what would you have rather done, I would of course, as a woman I think said I'd have rather had children I don't know the experience of what I'm missing out on luckily, and anybody I talk to has had children would say they wouldn't exchange it for anything. So I believe them, but I think I've been able to fill that gap by running a business and having this sort of inner sense and extended family within the business exactly.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's true, I had breast cancer in my mid thirties, and it turns out there's something like eight or nine women in my family have had breast cancer. Huge amount, but people never used to talk about it in the old days. Actually a lot of them survived it, we don't have the aggressive gene that you read about, and I was very lucky that it was found very early on, and so I didn't have to even have chemotherapy, but I had a choice afterwards we could have had children, and there's at the time I was advised not to because of the risks to have children quite soon afterwards was deemed to be quite a high risk, and we didn't take that risk, and then afterwards when I went to see specialist you know regularly along the way for checkups they said Oh, what a pity you didn't have children, of course it reduces the risk. So it's very difficult and really hard decisions. So it's very hard if I think about it”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She's eighteen And I've been lucky enough to know her since she was a year old. And so not having children, I am very, very fortunate to have a stepchild.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Teacher, yeah, but Hugh's saying it's going to ruin that song for her for life. So unfair they played that to her like that.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So now I've chosen Marvin Gay, and let's get it on, which is a record I've loved, obviously love warm Marvin Gay songs really, but this in particular reminds me very much of my stepdaughter Jess, and her coming back from school one day aged about ten, saying Have you heard of that song? Let us get it on Miss Sing Yes Why? And she'd just be played it for her introduction to sex education lessons at school.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“After I got the price for Vestatin, and I'd got the price'cause I'd drawn the best Roman and a toga, so he was so annoyed I was moved That was it I was sent to the very boring school in Kent instead”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I was able to, the grown-up ones would order me to go and get wine through the headmistress's cellar, so I got very lanky arms. Let's say six red, three whites, and I'd go down, you know, sucking up to them and get all the wine out of the cellar. And that was really fun that school. But I was taken away after a year because I came topping Latin and my dad, for some reason there's certain things he really wanted us to be educated in Latin we had to read books, you know, onus and that kind of thing, and he asked me a very basic Latin question which I was completely.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She did in the end, yeah. She was always, you know, running away or doing something. I did blame her because she really didn't like the school she was at. But this one school I went to I went to Various, the first one I went to was like a kind of holiday camp for eight year olds and we bred rabbits and went on nature walks and I went to this boarding school called Heathfield which was full of really exotic children and none of us did any work at the Saxonians. We were given a day off'cause one person got into university, so we were all given a day off.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did absolutely, and I had all my family came and had lantwiches very nice. Thing I was proud about for that really was that it was for business, and I just thought, you know, for someone who didn't really pay much attention at school and all rest of it, it's quite nice that it was for business.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean of course I mean I think I'm sure as anyone would equip you lose someone who you absolutely adore. There's always going to be moments throughout one's life where you wish you could tell them or discuss it with them. People quite often ask you know what is it that drives success why did I need to do this or work hard or create the business and things? And I'm quite sure when I do remember very clearly at his funeral it's very strange memory I have but thinking I'm just going to have to show him what I can do. for him to sort of feel proud of me. which I'll never be able to ever know You never do But I think there's definitely been that need behind which drives me to try and make the most of my life”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do if I see them I can't resist I don't go out of my way so much these days But now and then it's like there's a moment when for me if I pop the car and I'm heading into the car boot cell and you don't know what you're going to find, which is just pure happiness.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I do. I remember buying a pair of leather armchairs, antique leather armchairs from a car boot cell in Gloucester, and I'd put them on the back of the truck and drove up to London, and I sold them on the Monday morning. I think I'd paid fifty quid and I sold them for a thousand pounds. I remember thinking that's just unbelievable”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that's true. I think that's the one thing that has enabled me to do the business. I had this sort of moment I used to walk my dog in West London past a house clearance shop and see these amazing cupboards which were about to be stripped back for pine, but they still had the white paint on, and you'd see a big wardrobe for like twenty quid. I thought this is such a great value. And I thought there's got to be a way of my friends moving into houses starting families, and they need every day homes that aren't too precious but are decorative. There's got to be a market for this kind of look.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is there one I don't think there is personally I think it's like Its perception, isn't it, and the word vintage has become very trendy, but really it's sort of when I first opened the store I wanted to call it Kathon household effects, though it was a bit more what they were, you know, it's going to car boot sales and buying all this stuff that I loved and I went to the car boot sales because I couldn't find it in antique shops. So you must have”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's never really war admits more, I think I've always known I've needed an accountant to do the books, and as long as I put the accountant needed the bills paying before I paid myself a wage, really, that things would be quite sound, and again it's this sort of philosophy it's better to have more money coming in than out, unless I stick to that rule things should be quite safe for me.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I work for Nicky for I think it was three or four years, and then after that I had an idea for a business and for a shop, and I liked the idea of specialist things, and in those days people had very ornate curtains there was all these kind of swags and tails and this kind of decoration going on. And I thought I love vintage stuff and antique shops and obviously back to the shopping thing and I kept seeing lovely old curtain poles and all this stuff and I thought I'm going to make a junk shop full of curtainalia and I began with a friend of mine because I didn't dare do the business on my own. And so we ran the curtain pole shop off the King's Road and you were”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“curtains. I was measuring that's exactly how I met him, exactly. I did his howsap for him in a highly professional way, obviously. And then a few years later ended up moving in there. Thinking I can't live here, it's a man's size, and I couldn't obviously redecorate it having charged him a fortune to do it up in the first place.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My common law husband is really, or whatever. And I think he's the most talented person ever, and he's worked in the record industry since he left school aged seventeen from being a tea boy he's worked producing and making some of, I think, the best records ever, and this song to me completely epitomizes what he's done.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was had his ideas going, and I had one real saviour which is I've got a cousin, most lovely woman called Blinda Belville. She was a dress designer, she had a company called Belleville Sassoon in the sixties, and she was the only woman I knew who went off to work. and she wore much trendier clothes than my mum, and we were left all week with an au pair, which was far more exotic than being with a former nanny at home, you can imagine. But I never expected to have a business like her'cause she was kind of really up on a pedestal what she was doing. I knew I was creatively at school for example I won the art prizes and I really enjoyed art and I had creative skills but I didn't know how I could convert that into a natural business.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“had the most beautiful flatsbush with blue and white chints. And there she was in what was the equivalent of a tracksuit with all her dogs, sitting”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With lots of cool clients? Lots of cool clients. Yes. I would do anything from walking his pecanise to finding fabrics, you know, making notes for customers going to measure curtains. The first week I got there, I had to take a letter to Diana Cooper. You know it's the amazing old society beauty in Avergardener needed her curtains measuring up. What sort of curtains did Averard?”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I suppose I think everyone's got their own perception it's really interesting to me with our brand it's quite a marmite brand in the sense of people like or hate what we do and I think from a creative point of view I didn't set out to do something that was safe and cozy and that kind of thing I like the idea of actually reinventing and doing something slightly new and when the business started it was at a period where I'd been doing interior design for quite a long time and I'd worked for Nikki Haslam which was the first actual proper job I got and”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I'm very close to my sister and as a teenager when I was completely in aura of her, we would lie on the sofa learning how to smoke, listening to Lou Reed.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean my father worked, his father didn't work, he was really more of a playboy and he race bentley cars and flew planes and was of that generation, I think, that fought in the war he at age fourteen had been in the First World War, survived a submarine going down, you know all the stories you hear of these credible bravery when they were very young, but he was killed when he was thirty one he flew a plane into a mountain and died. So my dad didn't know his father probably it was two or three when his father died right. So he was then brought up by a stepfather he loved and lots of half brothers and sisters.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“with absolute no soft pity she started cooking and taking and selling food on a market stool in the local town, and this was someone who hadn't had to cook for all her adult life, but by that time I was in London and I went from school. I couldn't understand why on earth you'll go to university because I thought so odd to choose to do more exams, you know, I didn't really get the point of that. So I thought I'm going to get a job and earn whatever it was hundred pounds a week in a shop, obviously. Very nice And so I did”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And my mother I really got to know her much more when I was older. After my father died she really was quite extraordinary how she managed that when I look back she had my brothers who were aged I think eleven and thirteen when my dad died terrible aged to lose a father, isn't it? And she was forty eight and I thought she was old, you know, when you were nineteen you think that's quite old But she was obviously really having to survive a terrible thing. He died fairly quickly from a brain tumour, over a couple of months. And our whole sort of family life changed very radically at that time. She started a business that home. What was her business? She ran, she had paying guests at home, not long after he died. She was quite short of cash.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Um she was adorable, she was a lovely woman. It's very difficult'cause if you compare people he was much more the kind of centrifugal force in the house if you want. I'm sure she was a round more mum than he was because he was at work. But when he came in to see us or we spent time with him, you really kind of felt under a glow in a sense. And still, I mean, he very sadly died when he was fifty one or fifty, I think he was when he died.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because this really reminds me of my parents growing up, and it was kind of going down to their side of the house, and my dad loved playing music. I think of my parents at the weekends because that's when they were both around the most when I wasn't going to my school or whatever it was out with my pony or out in the garden with my sister and I was hanging out with grown ups and we had a swimming pool at home and they'd have music on and friends and I just this is so evocative of that kind of period.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That you're not organizing. I hate to say, I think it does know that I have some new investors, but in a minimal way I've always worked on a very simple basis that more in than out is quite helpful.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm very good at spotting brackets and red. You know, all the bits you need to get the bottom line, and I can see I visualize the bigger picture the whole time. And if the bigger picture doesn't make sense. I kind of was really struck with a banking crisis that I wonder who had visualised the vigour picture.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, June, I don't know what it is when I was aged about early twenties, I asked my mum about it, and she said, Oh, darling, you did have some sort of thing wrong with you, but I thought it better you didn't know So I passed A levels I was good at anything visual at school You know I can do fractions you imagine a cake and it all cuts up nicely and I can get the right answer”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I copied quite mirror image. I can write mirror writing naturally, strangely enough, but I wrote everything perfectly but writing from right to left. So when Miss Lawson came back from doing her gardening to see what we've been doing all morning, it all looked perfect.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very old fashioned when I look back. I don't remember learning but I remember books that we had to copy lots of A's and B's endless copying, which I did beautifully right to left no one would watch what I was doing, and I'm very left handed. Right to left, so you'd copy.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On Broadway, Wilson, Hampshire, we lived in a lovely house, to begin with, my sister and I got two younger brothers who are my six year gap between us, so it was very much my sister and I growing up. We live one under the house with a nanny. literally behind a green bay store. We didn't really go to school till I was about eight. I went to this lady's house in Andover there were about six of us kids. It wasn't school really, I think Miss Lawson was termed a governess in those days. It's a bit old fashioned, isn't it? Oh,”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In my reality I am a homemaker, you know again from when I was a child I used to rearrange my bedroom and spend my life sort of redecorating my room and I did decorating for a long time before I had my shop so absolutely am a home maker but I think I get very preoccupied by work these days so for example it's taken me five years to decide what material to hang as our bedroom curtains. I've had blackout roller blinds for five years so I'm not a very good example. I do like doing the making and the bits and pieces. I like hand sewing a lot. I find that very relaxing. If I mend something I feel very self righteous sewing on a button, things like that.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know, I mean literally as a very, very small child I would go and play in the garden with my sister we were thrown out every day, you know, to get fresh air or whatever, and I turned a laurel bush into a shop, and leaves were money, and I was, you know, I don't know what I was lining up and selling, but the whole process I absolutely adore. What I really like is very occasionally now I work in one of our shops. I'm not allowed to use the till'cause I'm not till trained anymore. But I just love that whole process could it be serving customers, rearranging the shelves, doing the window that would be really nice to do that again, you know that kind of thing I love it.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Beginning with that So the first record is Little Red Rooster by the Rolling Stones, and I chose that because I was, I don't know what age I was, I'm not very good at it, it must be about six or seven, I guess, and I was given a record token, and I've always loved going shopping, even from a very small age. I'd lived in the countries, I didn't have much opportunity to go shopping, but I do remember taking my record token into Andover, and seeing the whole list of singles, and I chose the name, you know, living out in the country with chickens. I thought, okay, I'll go for that one. And that was the start of a kind of long, long love of the Rolling Stones. And sort of listening to this song again, I love it as much as the day when I first heard it.”
2011-04-24 · Desert Island Discs · Cath Kidston · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source