Ce n’est pas un sac. C’est Le Pliage.

Having bought a black Pliage in Paris, after a long lunch in Le Marais, I suddenly panicked when I got it home to London and found it was brown. I thought the shop had packed the wrong colour. So in I go to the London Regent Street store with my receipt and ask for it […]

TRAVEL: Hidden Paris – Two Day City Break

It’s great to find somewhere different in one of the most visited cities in the world, Paris. Tucked away behind the Panthéon on the  hill Montagne Sainte-Geneviève to the south of the Seine is Rue Mouffetard – a remnant of a 2000-year-old  Roman road and still a bustling market from Tuesday to Sunday morning.   Starting from Censier-Daubenton metro station there […]

Bond Street Festive Illuminations Pay Homage To The Peacocks of Fashion

These are the ones I’ve been waiting for. Tantalising white peacock feather crowns. Would they be icy white like the baubles on Oxford Street or more colourful like the bulbs on Carnaby Street? Tonight we found out. And it’s a bit of both. Icy plumes and prisms of colour. Inspiration for the 2014 new festive illuminations […]