First, there was the book – Paris Sketchbook, an illustrated homage to Paris' innumerable secrets and treasures by Jason Brooks, to which I sang accolades in this review. Recently, the publisher Laurence King has reissued twenty beautiful illustrations from the book as a set of postcards. Ranging from fashionable and chic to romantic and nostalgic, ... Read more
You need to look no further than fashionistas' endless Instagram streams of Ladurée macarons and Pinterest photos of bright, high-ceiling apartments with a view of the Eiffel Tower to conclude that Paris is one of fashion's favourite clichés. I've embraced it myself too since I moved to London; as legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland once ... Read more
Scroll down to the bottom of this post to enter the giveaway. Published this year, 100 New Fashion Designers by Hywel Davies introduces 100 of today's most innovative emerging fashion designers (mostly London-based) on 385 beautifully designed pages. Each designer is represented with a biography, overview of their label, and interviews in which they discuss ... Read more