Welcome to Profits & Losses, GQ’s questionnaire about money that asks someone of note how they made it, lost it, spent it, grew it, and think about it. A luxury that’s worth its price: Being able to holiday on a boat. I’ve been a guest on many people’s beautiful boats over the years, but there is nothing quite like being able to charter one for you and your family and your friends.
A luxury that’s not: I can’t really imagine spending ridiculous amounts of money on a car. Growing up in London, the Tube was the best way to get anywhere. For me, after a Range Rover, it all goes downhill.
The best $50 I’ve ever spent: It will always be food. Yesterday I was on Sawtelle [LA’s Japantown] and queued to get into the ramen place, and it was a $38 bowl of ramen, and I thought it was the best thing I’ve ever eaten. Something that I own multiples of: Vintage Levi’s—I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.
If I find a wash or a rip pattern that I like, I’m buying it. The wage at my first job: I worked in fashion production. I was a production assistant on the shows, and my salary was £18,500 [about $25,000].
I negotiated that up from £16,000, which is what I was offered. So I was really proud of myself that I got a bit more money. My first big purchase: A Gucci diamanté thong, and it was the light of my life.
I wore the “G” outside my jeans, and I thought I was the absolute shit. It was £165 [about $225]. At that point, that was like spending £1,500 [about $2,000].
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