Told in advance by his publisher that Paul Gorman would be waiting in the reception area of Hotel New Otani, I find him jet-lagged, with a cold, and wearing a 25-year-old T-shirt that in suitably faded fashion screams "SEX PISTOLS" across his chest.
"She said I was 'young' and wore 'very smart clothes?' " he chokes with laughter through a tissue. "Forty-three and jeans, more like."
Paul is in Tokyo to help a namesake -- a British fashion designer with over 200 outlets in Japan -- open his latest capital venture, the Paul Smith Space, in Tokyo's Jingumae.