![]() ![]() ‘Hello my friend,’ she says back to Vincent Chaperon, an extremely warm, kind man who I can tell is thrilled with the name check. She spares 90 seconds to make a speech: ‘I love working with Dom Perignon and Vincent Chaperon,’ she says as he bolts up and waves from the middle of the table and Billy Porter takes a slurp of his broth. She takes her coat off to show off the tattoo– The One has really delivered. I got it in Osaka, Japan, when I was 23.’ There’s something about solitude that really speaks to me, and it’s interesting because when I was about 14 years old, I read a book called Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. ‘I love collaborating, but I also really like that time away… being introspective. But the more successful I became, the more I felt like I needed other people to tell me I was great. When I was younger I spent a lot of time alone writing music. ![]() ‘I wish I could tell my younger self that. ‘It’s really nice to have time to be alone and be expansive and know that you’re enough,’ she says, her voice calm, deep, low-key theatrical. Really? Why is that? (Please tell me this doesn’t count as Two and Three.) ‘I am actually really interested in living more of a life of solitude,’ her first precious words in response to The One. What do you want to achieve that you haven’t already? At least there is time to get ready, to blow-dry my hair, step into that glamorous outfit: I am off to a party in the Hollywood Hills, after all. Our two-question slot has also now become a one-question slot. Mercifully, as we arrive back in West Hollywood, it is announced that the Lady is late. I sit next to the Chef de Cave Vincent Chaperon and twist his ear for information to no avail: they have Zoomed, but never met in person. That Lady Gaga interview back at the hotel? Nearly forgotten. Minutes turn to hours, and we are lulled into a state of reverie. ![]() It’s not a taste, but a feeling – like magic: gently intoxicating.Ī lunch cooked by Michelin-starred chef Daisy Ryan follows, all paired with more – much more – of that vintage. Headphones on, the glasses are quickly filled by a model set of waiters and waitresses, and off we go. Before each of us, there is an elegant metal stand holding a set of headphones and an empty tulip glass. Perhaps not exactly: we are led out to a majestic circular plateau, jutting out into the vista, to sample Dom Perignon’s new 2013 vintage. The dramatic location of the tasting: a circular platform jutting out into the Santa Monica mountains, with headphones providing a serene soundtrack ![]()
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