“I was addicted to 'The Monkees' TV programme - not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, 'God! How neat!'”

American former fashion model, based in Britain

Marie Helvin is an American former fashion model based in Britain. She became known for her long career in fashion photography and for her close professional collaboration with David Bailey, whom she married from 1975 to 1985. In the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in many fashion features for British Vogue and was photographed by Bailey in a series of nude images published in his 1980 book Trouble and Strife. The two went on to make four more photographic books together, and they continued working on fashion stories for the British, French, and Italian editions of Vogue.