Future Dreams Claudine Collins

February 01, 2015 by Beatrice Aidin in Interviews

When the managing director of MediaCom Claudine Collins discovered she had breast cancer, she had what could be considered an unusual reaction. She told us, “My consultant said you are going to need an operation. So I looked at my diary and said ‘OK how about the 15th of January next year.’ It was October. He firmly said no and booked her in for treatment the following week. “Looking back, I was in denial and literally didn’t believe it because I had no symptoms.”

Future Dreams Sara Prentice →

September 01, 2014 by Beatrice Aidin in Interviews

“I had just started at artistic director at Garrard in September 2012, and in early November I was going on my first work trip with my then CEO to Doha to meet the partners out there — it was a big deal. The night before I left I found a lump in my left breast. You are told breast cancer is usually a pea-sized lump that is unmovable, but it wasn’t like that — it was flat but quite big and noticeable”

THE TIMES Astrid Kircherr My scrapbook of days with the Beatles →

August 01, 2013 by Beatrice Aidin in Interviews

In 1960, Astrid Kirchherr walked into the Kaiserkeller bar in Hamburg. Her friends had told her about a new band from Liverpool, the Beatles. On seeing them, “my whole life changed in a couple of minutes,” she says. They became friends, despite the Liverpudlians having no German and Kirchherr no English. The 22-year-old photographer took some of the first shots of the original line-up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe. “They were absolutely sweet and fantastic looking and had a lot of humour,” she says. She fell for Sutcliffe: “It was love at first sight. I thought, ‘Jesus Christ, he looks fantastic.’”