Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that brings out your sparkly inner confidence.

Today, I'm chatting to Dita Von T's.

When I was, you know, in my 20s trying to figure it out, I certainly could have pandered.

And I, there was definitely points where I was trying to, you know, be in Playboy magazine and they're like, you do not look like a playboy girl. And I was like, so, it's why you should have me there. You know, I'm just going to

stick with what I am. I always thought there was a value in being a little bit different. And

everyone's going to have a different way of looking at. So what makes one person feel empowered,

may make another person feel degraded. And I think the ultimate feminism is respecting each other's

choices even if it's not for you. I've been in quite a sparkly mood recently. I mean, obviously,

it's not all ups, there's ups and downs, but I had a very good up weekend when I went to a

birthday party in Ibiza. And as you might well know, I love a sequin. I wore a little sparkly blue dress for that,

which I loved so much. I've now bought it in purple, haven't I? Because I felt bloody good in it.

And it really leads on to the theme of this podcast this week because I believe there is great power

in clothes and just your general exterior and how you want to dress it making you feel bloody good.

And that weekend, this party I went to, you know, I'm not a massive party. I haven't been to

that many parties in the last decade. But I really felt the need to go for it. And it was

really liberating. And I put this dress dress on and I felt fucking fantastic in that

dress and I danced around all night long spinning around almost like a sort of kid just having

the best time it was really really euphoric so the lessons I learned from that weekend go out

dancing more because as adult so boring you never go dancing do you it's like when do you go dancing at a wedding, so boring. You never go dancing, do you? It's like,

when do you go dancing? At a wedding. Apart from that, like, I don't go dancing. When you're a kid,

you're always dancing about. Go dancing more. Wear clothes that make you feel bloody, brilliant.

And I don't know what the third bit of advice is from that weekend. Like, don't drink too much tequila because I felt like shit the next day.

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