HF: I'm sure that it's made a difference. The way people are brought up makes a difference in how they live and how they are, but it can be so easily used in a negative way. I think if people like it, then they like it. But, if people feel threatened by it, then it's a pity.

DD: I assume you've met Stella.

HF: Yes. I met Stella when she was showing at an art exhibition. She was great.

DD: What did she do?

HF: I am fearful of sounding derogatory because in fact it was incredibly creative. It was stacks of hay bails and it was built up and explained with a lengthy explanation, but it was very interesting.

DD: You initially met her in Scotland or in London?

HF: In London. I think she just started and I was sort of starting or thinking about it -- very much the early days for us-- three years ago.

DD: Is Honor your given name?

HF: Yes.

DD: Was it a hard name to grow up with?

HF: Not at all. I was a bit embarrassed because no one ever understood, and you don't want to be noticed for being different. But now I love it. I think it's great.

DD: Yes, it's sort of the same thing with me, actually. Growing up nobody knew the name Dahlia and I thought it was horrible. I hated it. Now of course I like it.

HF: It's a great name.

DD: It never felt like a burden to carry that name?

HF: I never really thought of it like that because you can become so familiar with something that you never really think about the meaning.

DD: What are your brothers' names?

HF: I have two brothers. One called Jack and one called Simon.

DD: Your sister, Violet, has a really interesting name. It's not really common at all, but your brothers, got the the more common names.

HF: Well, Simon is a family name. The oldest son is always called Simon. Jack I think is quite a cool name for a boy. I love it. But, yeah, Violet and I did better.

DD: What are your parents' names?

HF: My father is called Simon, too. My mother is called Virginia, which I hate. She's Italian and it's probably nicer in Italian.

DD: The New York Times has recently written about models and the way they're looking right now. They've described 'the look' as sort of a heroine type look, a used-up type look, not that this is you, but I'm wondering if you think that is a fair assessment?

HF: I think it's an interesting one. I don't know whether I can really apply it to what I see, though. I mean there is that kind of modern position that everybody wants from their photographs that is that much more modern than their last photograph or the last photograph that anyone saw, and that is often spacy. . . . I mean, is that what they mean?

DD: Basically, and also, the fact that they look like they could have done it, but its an affectation we assume.

HF: I don't think that's true. I think that there are some really beautiful girls [some of whom] I've seen recently who are just really interesting looking. And for me, more than the heroine look, which I do understand because I can appreciate what they mean, it's more the kind of really new and very different girls that are having a chance.

DD: You sort of fit into that category.

HF: I suppose I do, even though you could also say that I'm probably very old fashioned, quite old fashioned looking. You can always come back to that look eventually.

DD: Are there any other girls that you think are rising with you?

HF: There are a lot of really good girls at the moment, and very cool looking girls who can be photographed very well and who are very good at what they do. So, there are plenty of them coming up.

DD: You missed your plane on the way over. What happened?

HF: Well, I was meant to be working for American Elle yesterday.

DD: What were you going to do for them?

HF: It was a story. I was really excited because I had worked with Gilles Bensimon a while ago. I really enjoyed working with him. I was allowed to do exactly what I wanted. It was moving about, and it was letting what was inside you come out, and I'm really interested in the idea of presenting myself as something, a kind of character coming through what I do. So, I was so pleased to be working with him again. I got to the airport to collect my ticket and it wasn't there. Embarrassingly enough, I didn't have a credit card. Nobody can believe that I didn't have a credit card. But for me, I never think of credit cards. I had left my checkbook and card in New York thinking I wasn't going to go back to London when I did. So, I didn't have any means of paying for it. I couldn't get on the flight and I couldn't get hold of any agent. I didn't have 400 pounds to get onto the flight, and Elle hadn't confirmed that they had paid for it. So I missed it.

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