
There’s no way Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is going to “shuffle off into the beige” and be “imprisoned in tweed until the end of days” as he gets older.
Far from it – the flamboyant interior designer, 59, is approaching retirement with a distinctive flourish. He’s determined to reincarnate ageing not just for himself but for the older generation, at a time when “you continue to be yourself for as long as you possibly can” by being realistic about what you can do to grow old disgracefully – or even sexily.