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Celebrity fashion ranges are two a penny, but 'The OC' actress's handbags are impressive, finds Bryony Gordon
Mischa Barton is nowhere to be seen. She is in London to discuss a range of handbags she has designed, but what with all the highly groomed, highly strung PR girls, agents and assistants milling around - one for each of the 30 creations, it would seem - it is difficult to work out which is the Hollywood starlet. But when Barton arrives - 10 minutes late, of course - it is obvious. She is the only calm one. While the other women fuss and fawn over her - "Would she like juice? Water? Does the animal-print chair offend her?" - Barton shrugs and looks at them as if they are a bit bonkers.
Later, the 22-year-old, British-born actress, who found fame in The OC - a teen drama about rich kids in California - tells me that she often feels disassociated from the person she reads about in the newspapers: the wild child charged with drink-driving and cannabis possession, who is friends with notorious party girls Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. But talking to Barton, you wonder if 14 years in showbiz has simply caused her to disassociate from herself entirely.
 She sits down in a non-animal-print chair and starts to trot out platitudes about her handbag range - how she had always wanted to do something like this, but it was very important to have creative control - and is terribly polite, but boredom hangs heavy in the air. I imagine she's sharing your thoughts right now: "Oh no, not another celebrity turning her hand to fashion."
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