TALES FROM BELLA'S WORLD...
Bella Freud AW22
The Bella Freud Autumn-Winter 2022 (AW22) collection evokes an inquisitive and daring youthful spirit. Bella says: “It is important in fashion that you don't relax into being repetitive.”
AND GOD CREATED SUSIE...
The first time I met Susie, I was assisting on a shoot that she was modelling in for Elle magazine, in the late 80's. I saw her getting changed in the back of...
ANITA PALLENBERG
I first saw Anita Pallenberg on the front page of the Sun when I was twelve years old. I was entranced by her glamour and spent my frugal pocket money on a copy...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN
Once, when I was in Paris for work some years ago, I arranged to have breakfast with my friend Christian Louboutin. We ambled down the Rue de Rivoli and wandered into a smart-looking...
GINSBERG IS GOD
MYTHICAL BUNNY
‘Hey, Bel, will you come with me to a Cloud Workshop?’ My dearest friend Susie Cave was on the phone, telling me about an artist called Deborah Smith who she had met in...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
Major moments of learning in my life have been entwined with Vivienne Westwood. I first worked in her punk shop Seditionaries when I was 17. Every now and then Vivienne would come into the shop with a...
TALES FROM THE 90'S: DVF IN NYC
Diane von Furstenberg, aka DVF, is all over town at the moment. She popped over during London Fashion Week to celebrate the opening of her latest shop which is all black lacquer, mirrors...
CUTTING DAD'S HAIR
would pick up the phone and call his barber, who worked from the Berkeley
Hotel.
DOG STORY: HOW IT ALL BEGAN
BELLA'S ARRIVAL IN TOWN SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF HER SISTER
On my 9th birthday my father gave me a copy of Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc. This sounds like a classic parent to child birthday ritual but it had so much more significance...