“Don’t grow up, it’s a trap.” We’ve all heard or probably even uttered this phrase at least once in our lives. It’s ironic that for most of our childhood, we look forward to growing up and having the freedom that being an adult brings: staying up all night, eating all the junk we want and making up our beds whenever we feel like it. But by now, we’ve all realised that being an adult seems like an elaborate scam that’s always too late to get out of and the reality of being a grown-up is not at all like the fantasy we imagined as kids. Being able to eat cereal for dinner hardly seems like a fair tradeoff for owning a car – road tax, MOT, fuel prices and congestion charges all add up.

Life for Mr Tom Ford, who moved from London to Los Angeles in 2018, already seems normal once more. It’s 8.30am his time, he’s already in the office and talking to me, having dropped his eight-year-old son, Jack, off at school 30 minutes earlier. “Here in California, we have a 70 per cent vaccination rate and have herd immunity,” he says. “Everyone at my home and in my office is fully vaccinated, so we’re already living as if Covid never happened. It’s amazing how quickly everything returned to semi-normal behaviour, how fast you forget. It’s felt this way for a month.”

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“Don’t grow up, it’s a trap.” We’ve all heard or probably even uttered this phrase at least once in our lives. It’s ironic that for most of our childhood, we look forward to growing up and having the freedom that being an adult brings: staying up all night, eating all the junk we want and making up our beds whenever we feel like it. But by now, we’ve all realised that being an adult seems like an elaborate scam that’s always too late to get out of and the reality of being a grown-up is not at all like the fantasy we imagined as kids. Being able to eat cereal for dinner hardly seems like a fair tradeoff for owning a car – road tax, MOT, fuel prices and congestion charges all add up.

Life for Mr Tom Ford, who moved from London to Los Angeles in 2018, already seems normal once more. It’s 8.30am his time, he’s already in the office and talking to me, having dropped his eight-year-old son, Jack, off at school 30 minutes earlier. “Here in California, we have a 70 per cent vaccination rate and have herd immunity,” he says. “Everyone at my home and in my office is fully vaccinated, so we’re already living as if Covid never happened. It’s amazing how quickly everything returned to semi-normal behaviour, how fast you forget. It’s felt this way for a month.”