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Vivienne Westwood’s Amazon adventure

Bugs, snakes and a makeshift loo (‘Is it working for number twos?’) – does anything faze the 71-year-old fashion designer?

So, off to Peru to save the rainforest with the iconic fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, who at no point declares it so last season (just so you know), and here are some of the things I believe I will remember for the rest of my life: iridescent butterflies the size of dinner plates; the Ashaninka children playing joyfully in the river; Andreas, Dame Vivienne’s husband, who is just so fashion, falling madly in love with the children’s hair (“Beautiful! Divine! This is what we try to get on the models, this hair!”); the beauty of the forest and the threat of loggers, who take not just trees when they take trees, but a whole way of life; that deadly coral snake (blimey); and, above