Elle Macpherson: 'If you don't have a great body, how do you make a body look great?'

The supermodel dishes up some wisdom with her revolutionary underwear line

Elle Macpherson has poured our tea, and now she is putting her spectacles on to demonstrate the new clasp she has designed for the very pretty front-fastening bra she is showing me in a Clerkenwell showroom. This, right here, is the difference between the new Elle Macpherson Body brand of lingerie and Elle Macpherson Intimates, with which she parted company two years ago. At 52, Macpherson is not just here to look good in knickers; she is the brains of the operation.