I met up with iconic British designer Paul Smith at London Fashion Week ahead of his One Night Only tour in Australia on Monday (he's coming for a store event in Melbourne). Paul kindly gave me the grand tour of his office/Ali Barber cave of treasures in which photos by Cecil Beaton, Bruce Weber and Patti Smith are scattered amongst piles of toys, books, and random objects like a giant pink iPod, which was a gift from Paul's good friend Sir Jonathan Ive (good friend to have). Alice Cavanagh: This is pretty epic. Is it organised chaos, though? Paul Smith: Well, while I was away they decided they would tidy things up and so I realised that I did know where things were because when I came back, I didn't know where things were. Now, I'm going to hold onto that [gestures to my iPhone] and you've got to lift this bicycle. Oh wow. It's so light! Isn't that nice? It's carbon fibre. There's a little school just around the corner, and I invited 22 nine-year-olds to come and look at how we do things. When they came in this room, I said to one of the little boys, "Do you want to try and lift this bicycle?" He came and braced himself and went to lift it up, and when he did he was so surprised. He said, 'That's lighter than my sister!" I thought that was the greatest. Does your house look like this? No. I'm allowed one