Zaha Hadid, excellent, thankyou. I particularly like her because her designs look so utterly beautiful on paper, and are also utterly impractical (in many senses).


Yeah, true. I think we can agree the list is of dubious providence. Which is why I chose Vivienne Westwood. Not necessarily the best, but certainly one of the more consistently challenging and interesting designers operating out of Britain. I think Kate Moss is pretty important, but she's also merely a clothes horse.

Pah. Pah I say.

If we're considering the recently deceased, I would say Sarah Kane without a second's hesistation, even over the mighty Peel. Seriously, go, buy her complete plays. She's fucking incredible.

Sarah Kane's a good nomination, from the little I know but unfortunately the poll encourages selection along populist grounds ("If your icon died tomorrow, would they make front page news?").

If you've not read/ seen 4.48 psychosis yet, do so immediately. I'll apologise if you feel compelled to kill yourself following it.

do you remember that nations hero show. what the fuck where half the people doing on there? winston churchill! oliver cromwell!

I've never read that one, but I do remember this review of it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...4/btkane14.xml.