I contribute regularly to the Financial Times, HTSI, New York Times, Telegraph and a long list of other international titles focused on design, travel and luxury lifestyle.
Simone Rocha: ‘It’s not just about making pretty dresses’
The designer talks about perverse femininity, working with Gaultier and the influence of her Irish heritage
Leigh Bowery’s shock creativity is still influencing fashion
New exhibitions explore the legacy of the performance artist
Why fashion still bows to Madame Grès
A new book pays homage to the grande dame of drape
Erica Toogood's country hideaway
From a distance, the new curtains in the fashion designer Erica Toogood’s cottage on the borders of Hampshire and West Sussex look like billowing taffeta in a rich, golden khaki colour. “It’s actually waterproof fabric from a factory in Scotland,” says Toogood, 42, who lives here with her husband, Thomas Downes, 46, an architect, and their son, Cass, six.
‘My first thought was to have the whole thing be a swimming pool’
Excavation in modern architecture has a bad rap these day, but when furniture designer James Shaw bought a mini plot of land close to Columbia Road flower market in east London, he realised he would have to build down if he wanted to turn it into a home.
The result, developed with architect Nicholas Ashby, is an extension of James’s experimental, colourful product ...
The Big Light Haunting Italy
The food is divine. The architecture is exquisite. So why is it lit like a hospital room?
The wonderful wagons of Rollo Dunford Wood
Meet the carpenter preserving a rich history of carnivals and characters
A Designer Turns His Passion for Mountaineering Into New Pursuits
Many designers aspire to the label polymath, but no one polymaths as hard and relentlessly as Ramdane Touhami
Humberto Campana’s circle of life
The Brazilian furniture designer is about to unveil his first sculpture park. It’s an ode to bohemianism and a tribute to his brother
Designer Giles Deacon: ‘I never wanted a billion-dollar business’
A shift to couture a decade ago has proved a masterstroke, attracting a stellar list of clients and off-the-wall collaborations
Pasolini’s last supper
Mark C. O’Flaherty on the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini, carbonara, and the rarest, realest, bloodiest of steaks in Rome
Fashion Designer Romeo Gigli Has Opened A Fantastical Riad in Marrakech
Having made Morocco his home, the iconic Italian creative has opened a modernist five-bedroom riad that reflects his visionary style
Giancarlo Giammetti: ‘We couldn’t launch Valentino today’
One half of Italian fashion’s celebrated partnership on shaping Valentino Garavani’s vision, partying with Elizabeth Taylor — and why luxury is now in a ‘different universe’
I have reviewed hundreds of hotels – this is what makes a perfect 10
Our columnist awarded his first ever perfect score last year, to Estelle Manor, and it got him thinking about what full marks really translates as
Narrative Thread | Conversations on Fashion Collections
Mark C. O'Flaherty asks 14 individuals who work with or use clothes in a unique way: how has fashion created something significant in your life? Through fascinating conversations, and photoshoots of their private collections, in New York, London and Milan, he constructs a portrait of each person through their intimate relationships with fashion, featuring The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas, Charlie Casely-Hayford, John Matheson (McQueen Vault), Sandy Powell, Stephen Jones, Carla Sozzani, Winn Austin, Carmen Haid, Susanne Bartsch, Karlo Steel, Karim Rashid, Steven Philip, and Desmond is Amazing.