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‘I enjoy getting
dressed-up,
but in the day,
I tend to be quite
tomboyish
and usually
wear jeans’
Right: artworks in
the living-room.
Below: with her son
Grey in her
bedroom, wearing
cotton-blend skirt,
£845, Christopher
Kane at
Matchesfashion.
com. Top, her ownco-founder of the catering business Tart
Lon don, who all live nearby in Primrose Hill.
‘This actually belonged to my parents,’ she
says as we sit down at the Alvar Aalto table
in her dining-room, surrounded by quirky
props from her video shoots. ‘If you look
closely, it’s got an interesting collection of
doodles on it from when Jemima and I were
kids and used to sit under the table and draw.’
Born in Toronto, she remembers her
Canadian childhood with
fondness. ‘Back then it was
the kind of neighbourhood
where you could leave your
door unlocked,’ she says. ‘I
had a yellow school bus
that would pick me up
every day and the candy
was all Fruit Roll-Ups, jelly
beans and Popsicles.’ After
her father’s firm was
commissioned to mod-
ernise the Royal Opera
House, the family moved
back to the UK, where, at
15, Quentin was scouted as a model. Despite
forging a successful career in front of the
camera, she went on to study philosophy at
Cambridge University: ‘I was very lucky
because modelling helped me pay off all my
student loans and meant that I built a good