Q&A: Ioanna Xenophontes, manager, The Wren Press

Ioanna is 29 and has been working in print for 13 years. She lives for the moment so wouldn't want to time-travel, although none of her ideal dinner party guests are alive today. Of course it can be done, as she would say...

Why did you get into printing?
I went for an interview in a supermarket after leaving school, went past a printer’s and decided to pop in and ask for a job

What would be your dream job?
Print procurement for any designer brand

Who would play you in a movie about your life?
I’d like to think Penelope Cruz or Salma Hayek

What would you most like to print?
All the invitations for Fashion Week – London and New York

What is your favourite film?
Goodfellas and Stand By Me

What is your favourite TV programme?
Law and Order: SVU

Who or what do you hate the most?
Negative people and bad attitudes

Who do you admire most in the industry?
Andy Slade, senior production manager at Alderson Brothers: his knowledge is unfaltering and I love his banter

What is your favourite saying?
Of course it can be done…

What is your favourite album?
Anything by Paul Weller

What is your greatest luxury in life?
Sleep

What is your greatest ambition?
To be happy for 80% of the time

What’s your worst fashion disaster?
I’m a child of the 1980s. Everything I was forced to wear was a disaster

Who would be your favourite party guests?
Jackie Kennedy, Onassis and Frank Sinatra: an evening of old-school glamour

Where would you go if you could time-travel?
I live for the day; the past is the past and I like the element of surprise for the future

What is the worst kind of print?
Anything of bad quality. If you’re not going to make it perfect, don’t do it

How would you like to be remembered?
As a happy bunny with an attitude in all the right places

Life is…?
Too short to sit around and wait for things to happen