09 Apr
Made-to-measure tailoring has a new convert in Veep writer Ian Martin Over the years I’ve retrofitted my sartorial indifference into a sort of lazy defiance. If not exactly effortlessly chic, then at the very least effortlessly shit. Which is halfway there, surely. Yet at the back of my mind has been a yearning to own a really good suit. It’s a yearning I suppressed as a young man with moral sensibilities marinading in hippie bongsmoke. A“suit”wasn’t just...
02 Apr
Debra Brock thinks it’s all odour. It is now. Last week on Twitter I stumbled across an announcement which made me whoop and dance a small, poorly executed jig. For in this one, simple, tweet my two obsessions melded in a moment of pure perfection. There’s a FIFA World Cup 2014 perfume. I should explain that I actually have two Twitter feeds, because I have two very different passions. I’m ‘quite fond’ of beauty products (with ruinous special...
29 Mar
Elegance, loyalty, inspiration. Novelist Erin Kelly sees more in her mother’s make-up bag than a No7 palette My mother has had the same makeup bag since I was born, a cloth pouch with a groovy turquoise and lime green floral pattern on it, a fantastic 70s print that’s been in and out of fashion at least three times. Some of my earliest memories of my mother are wrapped up in that bag. I remember watching her twirl on...