Butter us up (new II)

Butter us up (new II)

2 Go on, butter us up! IT WAS ONCE an everyday, practical item, designed purely to keep your butter safe and at room temperature. But now the aesthetic butter dish movement is upon us. As the conversation about whole foods rages and the cost of living bites, a stick...
Pawfect beds for prized pooches

Pawfect beds for prized pooches

10 PAWFECT BEDS FOR PRIZED POOCHES A Chanel shopping basket – the only way for a dog to travel at Couture Fashion Week WE’RE IN THE throes of hardcore pet-core. No longer content with simply kitting out our pampered pooches in designer swag (Chewy Vuitton,...
Kitchen Confidential

Kitchen Confidential

9 Kitchen confidential The Bear HIGH-SHINE LOW-FI kitchens are back. Blame our obsession with The Bear, or watching David clean his in documentary Beckham. Or perhaps it’s the result of perfecting our culinary skills during the pandemic – home cooks now think they’re...

Ding Dong Merrily On High (Street)

8 Ding Dong Merrily On High (Street) FOR MANY, THE first advent calendar sighting sparks nothing but joy. For others, a festive dread. But whatever your feelings, you’ll no doubt have noticed that Christmas, in all its gaudy grandeur, is well underway. And, at the...
Put your feet up at Hotel Louboutin

Put your feet up at Hotel Louboutin

7 PUT YOUR FEET UP AT HOTEL LOUBOUTIN WORDS RACHEL LOOS it should come as no surprise that Christian Louboutin’s first hotel, in the pretty village of Melides in Portugal, is called Vermelho, which means ‘red’ in Portuguese – after all, the colour has become the...