CREWEL IS BEAUTIFUL

No, this is not a twisted post glamourising cruelty but a musing about this season’s fad for all things embroidered and stitched. I noticed last weekend this beautifully embellished jacket and skirt on a mannequin by the entrance of a Zara store and took this photo.

CHIP PAINT

At Crystal Palace train station

BADA

The British Antiques Dealers’ Association starts tomorrow until March 19, 2013 at the Duke of York Square, off Sloane Square, London SW3

“The BADA Fair remains the leading UK fair for traditional British antiques.”

JET 8 FOR THE JET SET

JET 8 is a new, urban and contemporary menswear concept by French luxury brand S.T. Dupont that I discovered in Harvey Nichols yesterday. Its vibrant, casual menswear collection is the perfect colour boost for the looming spring/summer.  

KATAZOME & JOHN STEFANIDIS

One day last year, whilst on my way to the British Museum, I walked past a shop in Bloomsbury which caught my attention. In the windows, there was a lot of boxes covered in what seemed to be wrapping papers with wonderful designs. It’s only when I stepped into the shop that I realised I’d arrived in the well-known fine paper and bookbinding shop, Shepherds (previously known as Shepherds Falkiners before they moved to Victoria).

If you think you’d seen the best wrapping papers in Paperchase,