to be like so we scooped up a lot of its old photographers.' When Wintour left to go to American Vogue in 1987, Liz Tilberis was made the editor and asked Chambers to go back as her fashion editor. Her first long-haul trip was to Ladakh in the far north of India. 'It was totally inaccessible,' she says. 'I took Patrick Demarchelier and Cindy Crawford, and we lived in tents for two weeks. We didn't wash or shower - what did I know?' Twenty-five years later she is still embarking on impossible adventures. 'I am incredibly driven, incredibly hard-working,' she says. 'I have a huge sense of responsibility to who I work for - I'll do anything for them. But I don't feel ambitious. I don't feel I have to be up there - and I don't feel I am.' When Alexandra Shulman became the editor of Vogue in 1992, she offered Chambers the position of fashion director and they have a working relationship that is almost as enduring as that of her old boss Grace Coddington and Anna Wintour in New York. But experience has not dulled her creative spirit. She recently did a story in Antwerp with Testino on Arizona Muse and Freja Beha Erichsen and made headdresses out of tea towels. 'They looked like Flemish portraits,' she says. 'The make-up was really powerful and they looked really still and odd. I remember thinking, "These are beautiful, but Alex is not going to like them." Actually it's one