My growing numbers of friends around the world say ‘I’ve never seen anything like Anne of Carversville, Anne. I LOVE it!!!!! There is no explanation for how a young man in Sri Lanka and young woman in Mauritus connected with me today, but this happens all the time.

I understand a fashion editor in London writing me yesterday, but today’s two are the friends that surprise me.

Personally, I think people of every age like the unorthodoxy of my little ‘feminist design manifesto’ as the photographers call it.  My entire career is one of connecting pieces of life puzzles in unusual ways.

‘You make me think, Anne,’ they write — as if I’m some sexy school marm.

‘The Tale of a Fairy’ vs ‘Nothing Personal’

Last night I went to bed with all 30 minutes of Karl Lagerfeld’s new film ‘The Tale of a Fairy’. Speaking about the film, Karl commented: ‘Some people may be shocked, it is a movie about an ill-advised use of money which begins with violence and ends with feeling.’

Like any good Hollywood director, Lagerfeld took every sexual innuendo in the film and compressed in in the 90-second trailer. Trust me — you saw it all, and there is NOTHING shocking in the movie.

I would never watch a Karl Lagerfeld film expecting to see any exploration of sexuality or raw human emotion, because the designer is the sponsor of the fashion monasticism, a stilettos-not-sex movement built on intellect and friendship.