HF: After. As a result of seeing the runway show. I did quite a few and I can't even think. Carolina Herrera -- I did something like 15 -- Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta, Marc Eisen, Mark Jacobs, what other ones are there?

DD: So, you've already shot both of the campaigns. What was it like working with Isaac?

HF: I really got on with Isaac.

DD: I could see why. You seem very. . .very animated and Isaac is also very animated, so I could see you really clicking.

HF: It's also really funny being very, very English and clicking with an American, because its . . . I don't know, he was just very funny and very interested in people, and it just sort of worked very well. I went in to a fitting, went in to see him originally and I was obsessed by this Mad Cow disease that was going on and the idea of slaughtering 24 million cows, and I was just like, this is so extraordinary and sad. I was thinking aloud and I was very late for this fitting. It was awful.

DD: Are you always late? [Honor was approximately 40 minutes late for the interview. She did have a good excuse though, she was coming from a shoot.]

HF: Quite. And I just told him that this was really bothering me that all these cows were going to be killed, and then I sort of thought that this wasn't anything to be worried about because this was a millennium moment. Some amazing things are going to be happening in the next three years to England. England is very open to millennium madness. I'm convinced that something worse is coming. I told Isaac this, and he was really taken aback. He was very interested in how I was thinking, and I was absolutely fascinated by him. Later I went in to get a press pack, not knowing anything about him, and was amazed to hear how he started, winning all of the youngest man awards. And his family. I'm just really fascinated by him. And I love his knowledge of films, and I love his references to films, and I love him ahhh. . . really getting stuff from it, and I love his passions. He's great. He's really cool. He's really exciting.

DD: What about Ralph Lauren? Completely different personality.

HF: Completely different personality, but they're both really, really nice people. It's such a boring thing to say, but I really did think that. I really liked being with them. You know, it's not that much of a surprise, but I guess you have to be in the big world of fashion to really feel comfortable and warm with these people. But, I really felt that they're both really likeable people. Ralph was great. He was very enthusiastic. I love the input he has on the collection, which I never really expected. Not that I'm apt to make any speculation at all about him, but it was really nice to see how much input he had. He has such great people working for him, such a good team. They're really nice people, and really encouraging and when they have an idea, they really work at it. Also nobody is afraid to say what they think, which I think is great. I really liked the people and the environment.

DD: Before you came to New York, what were you working on in Paris?

HF: I was shooting Hermes. In fact I was in Normandy. And before that I was shooting [Emanuel] Ungaro, and I did some beauty shots for Singapore Vogue, or something like that. Before that I was here.

DD: You were shooting Hermes. Is that the fall campaign?

HF: Actually, no. It's not really. I think they have a catalog. I don't know what kind of project it is. It's definitely not their advertising, which I know because I've done it in the past. It's just sort of one shot of a girl in action. They have a theme running through each collection. It's quite an interesting idea. I did their advertising without realizing this. Each collection has a theme and the one I did was journeying, and that doesn't just mean travelling. It means moving through life, or whatever, and I had absolutely no idea. Anyway, we went to Tangiers to do this incredible shoot for 45 minutes of work, which I thought was absolutely incredible. I loved it. I love Morocco.

DD: You enjoy travelling then, I imagine.

HF: I find it quite exhausting. I really enjoy it. It's kind of funny, I've got really used to never being anywhere for too long and I get a strange sort of strength from it now -- you can run away and go to the next place. It's probably escaping, but I'm quite into it. I don't mind moving about.

DD: What other ad campaigns did you do in Paris?

HF: I did Nina Ricci, which was quite exciting. I did Guy Laroche and I did Rena Lange, which I did in New York, but I'm not sure how much anyone sees of that.

DD: And these are all ad campaigns?

HF: Yes. You never know what's going to happen next.

DD: Did you talk to Isaac Mizrahi at all about his film?

HF: I did a bit. I saw it before I met him, and funnily enough, because I saw it before I met him, I almost don't want to talk about it for some reason. But, I really enjoyed that film, and now having met him, I've seen it again, because he gave me a copy of it. I was so charmed by him. I just think he's really sweet. I love the way he comes out in his film. I think it's really interesting. I must talk to him about that.

DD: Do you want to go to acting or film school?

HF: I would really like to because I would like to find out how to make a film. I find it very difficult to think of the beginning stages, and then going to the movies and seeing it. I would love to produce or direct a film, but I would also like to act. What I would love to do is a six- week [film] course before I did an acting course, but finding time has been difficult. I wanted to do it last June.

DD: You're 22 years old now?

HF: Yes. I'm glad to be 22 because I would hate to do what I'm doing and be very young. If I had been a lot younger it would have been very difficult. When I started I was completely terrified by it. I was really confused by it, and I didn't understand it, and I wasn't very into it. And you know you grow up to either want something or not want something, and I suddenly really enjoy it.

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