Not a great day

On a clear day one can see Africa from this terrace

Annette Glasmacher, interior designer and former director at Chanel, has died. I spent the day trying to get my head to stop replaying images of her, her terrace, her house – and the millions of conversations we had deep into the night.

I went with my childhood trick of being very, very still, all day long, because that makes it feel like I can stop everything; time, emotion, sadness. I feel like a whole part of my life has been taken, stolen. I hope someone remembers she wants the Callas version of Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix played at her funeral.