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.
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’
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.
‘My view of home is that it’s like a temple’
When does the artist and fashion designer Samuel Ross ever sleep? There are so many after-midnight marathons in his basement sculpting studio, “sometimes spent in silence or listening to Miles Davis or Ryuichi Sakamoto if it’s one of my 14-hour sessions”, he tells me.
Some people watch 9½ Weeks for the sex. I watch it for the furniture
lick, urbane and über-masculine, ’80s erotic noirs established a interior mood that still seduces
Jupiter 10
Forget Painting. Basso and Brooke's Bold Bespoke Wallpapers Will Liven Up Any Room in the House.
Austin Osman Spare – occultist, avant-gardist and ‘Britain’s first pop artist’
The London painter’s works have become spookily popular of late
Morocco Redefined: Inside the Eye-Opening Casablanca Art School Exhibition
An exhibition at Tate St Ives in the UK spotlights the artistic rebirth of a post-independence Morocco – and how its renowned ‘new wave’ art school paved the way a bold visual language that continues to inspire applied arts, typography, graphics and interior design
When Superheros Need Leather, These ‘Pop Artisans’ Go to Work
LONDON — Not all superheroes wear capes. And none wear satin tights or stretch nylon today. The modern crime fighter favors bespoke leather, often a little kinky, frequently handmade by a pair of ex-club kids. Patrick Whitaker and Keir Malem, both 57, founded Whitaker Malem, their leather specialty label, in 1988.
This hotel gets my first 10/10 – here’s why
Our hotel critic gives 'lavish, beautiful, incredible' Estelle Manor in the Cotswolds a perfect score
London’s luxury hotel boom is finally happening – starting here
The Peninsula London, with its £1,300-a-night rooms, is a ‘universe of absolute luxury.’ Is is worth the hype?
BassamFellows
All copywriting for the BassamFellows website – from landing page to individual design/product details.
Into the Brudnizki-verse: the Swedish super-designer unveils his first store
Martin Brudnizki’s debut retail space has landed in London
The UK’s quirkiest folk festivals
Every year as the first May bank holiday approaches, I begin to turn green with joy. Folk customs take place year-round across the UK, but the one that makes my heart sing is the Jack in the Green in the seaside town of Hastings, which signifies the start of spring
How fashion got stuck in the Waugh zone
Designers can’t stop revisiting Brideshead Revisited. Why?