The last time I sat down with Julien Macdonald, 54, was so long ago that neither of us are that keen to work it out.
Vaguely, it was the early 2010s when he was showing at London Fashion Week every season, and at the time of our meeting a gaggle of seamstress hands were busy sewing sequins and crystals onto an outfit for Beyoncé. Mrs Carter is still a fan (as is Kylie, J-Lo, Taylor Swift and all the Kardashians) of the Welsh former wunderkind protégé of Karl Lagerfeld. The late designer appointed him head of knitwear at Chanel in 1996 after judging his MA at the Royal College of Art.
