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Music My castaway this week is the interior designer and socialite Nikki Haslam.

Around seven invitations a day land on his doormat,

though surely not many for parties as celebrated as the ones he throws himself.

His life defies easy description. In America, in the 1960s, he hung out with Andy Warhol,

got to know Wallace Simpson and the Duke of Windsor and met Sidharese and President Kennedy,

and after all that, he became a cowboy.

Impressed by the sleek style of the States, when he returned to Britain, he drifted into interior design.

His father thought he was a wasterel, but his clients didn't.

They've included Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart and Brian Ferry.

My life has been one of passion, and I'm very faithful to my passions in life, he says. It seems that I'm a bit of a flibberty gibbet, but I'm actually

not. I read a lot, I know a lot, and I share with other people. I wonder, Nicky Haslam,

if the trick you pull off is to appear to be something of Adilatante,

but in fact you work incredibly hard.

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