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Among those who spilled into the shop were actresses Claire Bloom, Susannah York, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Leslie Caron and, later, photographers David Bailey and Richard Avedon, film directors Stanley Kubrick and Joe Losey, and models including Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy. I got to know John Lennon in the early Sixties after he bought his black leather cap and other items from the shop. We became affectionate friends until the foreign press gossiped of an affair — which, I’m sad to say, was not true. But he did send me messages of huge encouragement later when I had a difficult pregnancy.John was a very sweet but often depressed man. I sat next to him at a lunch at Foyle’s to launch his book of rhymes and doodles, In His Own Write.