mimi pompom

Mimi Pompom is my pseudonym. I am the former Fashion Editor of a well-known British newspaper. I am now a freelance fashion and beauty writer, living in a small and unfashionable French village in the Poitou-Charente.

more about me

  1. I never say no to a glass of pink champagne.
  2. I know a lot about the French Revolution.
  3. I was brought up in The North (near Liverpool).
  4. I had never been blackberrying until I moved to France.
  5. I studied Modern History at Kings College, London University. This has not proved useful for anything.
  6. I know the Farrow & Ball colour chart inside out. This has proved very useful.
  7. I understand the 'off-side' rule.
  8. I don't like chilled red wine, farci Poitevin (stuffed cabbage) or andouillette.
  9. When I was young I wanted to be a barrister but now I write about handbags instead.
  10. I don't shop at Top Shop, Primark or Tesco.
  11. As I child I had a white English bull terrier called Bodger and a rabbit called Binkle.
  12. Most proud of: getting an A for physics O level. A lesson in how never to give up ....
  13. Biggest fashion achievement: I was the first UK fashion journalist to write about grunge.
  14. Favourite book: Life of Pi by Yann Martell (closely followed by Summer by Edith Wharton and Scoop by Auberon Waugh).
  15. Favourite flower: peony.
  16. Favourite fashion label: Prada
  17. Happiest memory: crab fishing on the Ile de Ré.
  18. Least favourite memory: stuck on a fashion shoot in a safari park in Kenya with a bunch of fashion people and food poisoning.
  19. Guilty secret: I listen to Johnny Cash while driving.
  20. Guilty secret II: I have recently become addicted to line dancing (or ‘la danse country’ as the French call it.)
  21. People that I am least likely to invite to dinner: Harriet Harman, Peaches Geldof, Vladimir Putin, Michael O'Leary, Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls.
  22. People I would most love to invite to dinner: Kate Moss, Jeremy Paxman, Nicolas and Carla Sarkozy, Sir Alan Sugar and Wayne and Coleen Rooney.
  23. Favourite word: discombobulated.
  24. I am good at camping (and even better at staying in five star hotels).
  25. I cook a mean risotto (as taught by an Alain Ducasse sous-chef.)
  26. I can hike for miles and miles.
  27. Favourite magazines: FT How To Spend It, US Vogue and Madame Figaro.
  28. My younger brother and I once took a flight from Grand Cayman to New York, during which the pilot announced that we were running out of fuel, had lost contact with traffic control and our situation was ‘critical’.
  29. Everyone thinks we made the above story up. [ We didn’t.]
  30. The words most often used to describe me: expensive, elusive, high-maintenance.
  31. At least one of the above adjectives is not true.
  32. Words I would use to describe myself: decadent, generous, opinionated and a perfectionist.
  33. When worried about my personal debt mountain I buy Baccarat crystal champagne glasses to cheer myself up.
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