Ex-Vogue fashion editor Lucinda Chambers

Shes over all that drama now. In many ways the departure from Vogue did her a favor by opening a door to her current adventures. At 63, shes now a bona fide entrepreneur, with a Milan/London-based fashion label called Colville, co-founded with an old colleague, Molly Molloy, from Marni (the upmarket Italian label, beloved for colour, prints and inclusive silhouettes, for which Chambers worked as a consultant for more than two decades).

While Colville offers quirky, high-end, artsy clothes, often using upcycled or handmade artisanal pieces, her other venture, Collagerie, founded with a former Vogue colleague, Serena Hood, is more accessible. An online selection of the best high-street and designer fashion and homewares, its the next best thing to have Chambers and Hood as your personal shoppers. They trawl products and distill them into a manageable, constantly updated, gorgeous edit that makes the deathless late-night scrolling to which many of us succumb superfluous.

The one thing over everything, is Collageries tagline. Someone recently told Chambers they felt they were across everything, both high and affordable fashion, after they looked at the site. That made me really happy because theres so much out there and for most normal people that can be overwhelming. They started to disengage. Weve all got to get dressed, why not enjoy it?

She thought carefully about who she went into business with because, she says, Ninety-four per cent of new businesses that fail do so not because theyre a bad idea but because the partners fall out. She worked with 39-year-old Hood for five years before Collagerie, and Molloy for far longer, so they were both very long engagements.