An alternative thought to last Thursday’s post about the cosy conviviality of the Alaïa cafe-bookshop. Reading Sheila Rock’s ...

Reading Sheila Rock’s excellent 2020 photo book, Young Punks, her photo of the decidedly un inviting facade of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s 1976 SEX shop (above) revealed an audacious ...

I treated myself to a banana bread and coffee date at the new Violet Cakes cafe in the New Bond Street Alaïa store. Food and ...

Just after New Year I treated myself to a banana bread and coffee date at the new Violet Cakes cafe in the New Bond Street Alaïa store. Food and fashion have been forging an alliance for some time and ...

This photo of Roy Halston and Andre Leon Talley (above) appeared on my Pinterest and got me thinking about opera pumps.

This photo of Roy Halston and Andre Leon Talley (above) appeared on my Pinterest and got me thinking about opera pumps. WTF are opera pumps? Quite simply a Regency-era formal men’s slipper previously ...