"I don't mean to hush," said Valancy perversely.
Perversely, this means that the more I dislike a book, the longer I spend reading it.
The style first presented itself at the Etro show in Milan (at which I was, perversely, looking at clothes destined for the shops next February), where the models wore a sturdy gaucho boot with kasbah robes, kaftan silks and boiler suits.
But if China does not simultaneously tackle its much larger illegal trade in ivory the ban could perversely make it more lucrative for the poaching gangs who massacre Africa's elephants and ship their tusks to Asia.
