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Elegantly upcycled bags by Reclaim Mallorca.
In recent years I have become more and more concerned about the origin of the clothes and accessories I buy, who makes them and where the materials have been sourced – but oh, can worthy apparel be lacking in the aesthetic stakes...
Independent
Dear Wolfgang.
My boyfriend is taking me to France in Sepember for a week's camping, something i haunt done for years. He's a whizz at condensing an entire fortnight's necessities into a pint-sized rucksack, but i can't pack light....
Financial Times
Moonlighting as a male fashion guru.
Sacha Baron Cohen’s film Brüno opens this weekend to great fanfare, hoo-ha, and, occasionally, horror. But none of the flamboyant Austrian fashionista’s eyewatering antics could surprise me.
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Fisher London.
I pride myself on being good at just a few things – and buying presents is one of them. Yet there is always someone who is difficult to buy for, namely my friend Sasha who, on account of her job in fashion journalism, wants for nothing material (scented candles, forget it; she has the gamut of Jo Malone)...
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TM Lighting:
A few months ago I wrote about the wonderful John Jones framing service based in Finsbury Park, but soon after I had collected my artworks, I found myself wondering not only where to hang these newly framed pieces but also how to light them. It seems a shame to have them so beautifully framed and then subject them to an unforgiving glare.
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John Jones: picture-perfect frames.
I am known among my friends for being a newspaper and magazine magpie. I just love to keep big, history-making news in printed form. My most recent find was a $10 copy of TheNew York Daily News in a Hell’s Kitchen flea market...
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Help from their friends, Astrid Kirchherr’s limited-edition signed photographs of The Beatles
The months that The Beatles spent in Hamburg have been well documented – mainly through the photographs taken by Astrid Kirchherr. As a 22-year-old student, and despite no common language, she became friends with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe...
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Heywood Hill’s A Year in Books bespoke service.
A blue plaque adorns the building at 10 Curzon Street in London’s Mayfair, where Nancy Mitford worked during the second world war. This was not, however, where the eldest Mitford sister set up a desk and typewriter, but where she worked as a bookseller...
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Dr Perricone’s 3-Day Face Lift Diet.
The stars of the silver screen will by now be digging into several In-N-Out burgers after the awards season that had them slave to choices: couture Dior, Chanel or Marchesa? Three-hour Runyon Canyon hikes or a month of Barry’s Bootcamp..?
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Waxing effusive about an everyday sunscreen.
Meet a dermatologist who doesn’t advise wearing sunscreen and I suggest you call up their alma mater to check their credentials. It is the one thing that truly unites these experts – their belief that too few of us wear it daily, and those who do, don’t wear enough...
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“I walked out calmer, more focused and feeling happier”.
Mindfulness and I are not particularly compatible; a typically harassed Londoner, I am more likely to be found listening to Alan Partridge on Audible than downloading a Zen session from Headspace...