‘I was obsessed with my mum gelling my hair when I was a kid. Sometimes I’d get her to gel it back and down, or scraped back into a ponytail. From that moment on I knew I was going to be a star! [laughs] ...

My big brothers would always gel their hair, so I think I wanted a piece of the action. She’d gel it backwards – which actually is a really high-fashion look now – but flat and knotty. Growing up I was very particular about what I wore. My mum wasn’t allowed to dress me – I dressed myself. One of the first memories I have is from when I was about three. I went to playgroup and we were allowed to play dress up, but we had to take the costumes off for lunch. So I decided to go to nursery wearing a little fairy costume so that I never had to take it off. I’ve got really vivid memories of it. I also used to have this recurring dream about being underwater with a massive whale. He would swim up to me and we’d just be nose to nose, looking at each other. And it wasn’t just from my perspective, like, I could see from far away how big the whale was and how little I was. Maybe it just meant that I was really small.’ In shot: Maisie wears T-Shirt by Off-White and dress by Burberry.