This just in via Vogue’s March issue… Ladies must have Total Style. You too, can have Total Style. How?

Step 1. Have fabulous house. Have fancy job and/or life titles. Examples – chatelaine and festival director, fashion-shoot producer and tv presenter…

Step 2: Abandon all ideas of wearing your slouchies around the house. Get your best threads on. Extra points if your dogs are in avantegarde pet-wear… 

Step 3: So you still love boho? Don’t worry about it. You’re still winning, just make sure your face says so.

Hope you’re now feeling as fabulous as I am.

Happy New Year!

… Chinese New Year of course, and even with that we’re a bit late. It’s really just an excuse to show you my calendar from Chinatown. Someone of infinite thoughtfulness bought if for me, after I’d literally been made sick with jealousy at the one My Friend had last year. As you can see, she […]

My desk: Margarita Lorenzo

Handmade homewares and accessories designer Margarita Lorenzo of Chocolate Creative takes us on a tour of her desk. Where is your desk from? I made it myself from an old Ikea desk. It’s my printing table and it doubles up as desk for when I’m designing new collections. It also serves as Missi, my cat’s bed. […]

Dammit!

Depressing Channel 4 show Joy of Teen Sex stole my kitchen wallpaper. I thought seeing wallpaper I really liked gracing the changing rooms of River Island or some such was the worst thing that could happen, but it forming the backdrop for some faux-counseling session for whey-faced teens really is the final straw. It’s like […]

Not what it seems

Did you see Jeff Koons at The Serpentine Gallery back in 2009? The exhibition looked to be full of amazing giant inflatable beach toys, actually made from cast aluminium then intricately painted. There was a weird shifty atmosphere because every person in there was trying to cop a feel of the art over the ‘do […]