The designer’s motivation, she says, is to dress all of her clients in a way that exudes “true power, grace, beauty and dignity”. 

“I always want to show that the woman is wearing the dress, rather than the dress overtaking the woman,” Lee told The Telegraph after her latest catwalk show, adding that she was “really proud” to dress Lady Starmer. Vanessa Kingori, a managing director at Google UK, and Baroness Helena Morrissey joined Starmer on the front row – a markedly different approach to the many designer brands that invite A-list celebrities to attend their shows.

For Lee’s star client, clearly, the good-feeling is mutual. In order to carry on this special relationship with Downing Street? Lee needs only to ensure that every dress she makes is re-issued in that particular shade of red.