Title: Three Brief Encounters

Author: Sarah Laing

In: Sport 27: Spring 2001

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, October 2001

Part of: Sport

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Sport 27: Spring 2001

The Fashion Queen

The Fashion Queen

Alannah Hill sits on a tasselled scarlet ‘poshy’ damask, reapplying her powder with a fat brush. Big hair, blossom-toed slippers, ringleted lap dogs.

Alannah Hill sits on her marble-blush bench and talks on her pink phone. Louis XV hands her a martini and offers to do the dishes in the gilt-encrusted sink.

Alannah Hill sits in her sherbet-bomb balcony chair, wafting Chanel no.5. The diamanteés on her wrists twinkle, her tea is touched up with cherry liqueur. As the palm fronds swing so cool and sway so gentle, she tells us that she's written a novel, loves watching Neighbours and never, ever wears jeans.