{"id":3804,"date":"2010-10-10T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2010-10-10T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T16:29:15","slug":"lunch_with_phoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3804","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with Phoebe Philo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanessa Friedman<\/a><\/p>\n

Phoebe Philo, the 37-year-old creative director of C\u00e9line, is surprisingly frail for someone who a year ago accomplished the Herculean feat of turning the river of trend and washing fashion\u2019s Augean stables clean of decorative bling. A 2010 nominee as British Designer of the Year, she was also behind one of the most heralded collections at last week\u2019s women\u2019s wear shows in Paris.
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\nMedium height, with wispy brown hair and prominent cheekbones, her thin frame swamped by a black leather jacket and a long, man\u2019s shirt over slouchy black trousers, she can seem almost fragile. On the other hand, she has chosen St John, a restaurant in Clerkenwell, London, known for its \u201cnose to tail\u201d menu of offal and other meaty innards, so clearly she has a carnivorous, protein-packing side.
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\n\u201cWell, it\u2019s run by a friend,\u201d she says when she arrives in the stripped-down white space and sits at the paper-covered table. \u201cAnd it has a straightforwardness that I quite like. It\u2019s very to-the-point.\u201d
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\nTo wit: there are \u201cpeas in the pod\u201d on the menu. Literally. Undressed, unshelled, peas in the pod, like the kind you get in the market. Or, as Philo says, like the kind that might have \u201ccome right from the garden\u201d. She orders some of those with fresh lemonade \u2013 the kind they make in America, with just lemon juice, water, and sugar \u2013 plus a green salad, some cured mackerel and a roast beef sandwich, because she \u201crather fancies some white bread\u201d. I opt for lemonade, some cauliflower and lentils, a green salad and a cheese plate. Philo looks at me appraisingly.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vanessa Friedman Phoebe Philo, the 37-year-old creative director of C\u00e9line, is surprisingly frail for someone who a year ago accomplished the Herculean feat of turning the river of trend and washing fashion\u2019s Augean stables clean of decorative bling. A 2010 nominee as British Designer of the Year, she was also behind one of the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}