Sustainable Luxury

English Eccentrics we summon you! Outside it may be the dead of winter, with tempests and Dickensian mists. Inside, our hearts are burning for this opulent, silk satin, Made in Britain fashion work of art of a dress. The Escapist Shirt Dress, by Charlotte Allen, for Klements, at Young British

Very, very good things come from Peru. Like Paddington Bear and the perfect, indispensably beautiful sweater made from alpaca, yarn of the gods and kings and queens. Are you admiring these beautiful, forever, light as air, sustainable luxury, baby alpaca crew sweaters? They come in smoke grey and camel, and

Let’s skip to the Jazz Age, the Great Gatsby and the birth of modern fashion, with a Roaring Twenties, Artisan, hand-loomed winter coat, from slow British, ethical fashion house, Nomads. (Have I told you that their opulent, embellished, velvet frock coats and hand loomed, painterly coats are a bit

I Celtic and Co Top Winter Investments Pieces – Alison Jane, our editor, picks her five favourite, eco conscious, luxury, investment, winter Snow Queen pieces, from Celtic and Co a made in Cornwall fashion house with a royal following. The Duchess of Cambridge is a fan and has sported their  fabulously

Object of Desire – Gung Ho Stag Beetle Sweatshirt Who knew that a stag beetle could become an emblem of conscious fashion lust and desire? Do you adore a dash of British whimsy and over the top, animal magnetism and flower power fabulousness? Then Gung Ho is the go to, sustainable

Sustainable journalist and editor, Alison Jane Reid, in conservation with Jiri Kalfar, ballet dancer turned glittering, fashion revolution designer. If fashion is all about the celebration of freedom, innovation and self-expression, then Jiri Kalfar is to fashion what Picasso is to art: a fashion agent provocateur, who uses beauty and

It’s high summer and we can’t help thinking about Brigitte Bardot in her St Tropez prime, and how eternally chic crisp white organic cotton looks against a dreamy, cobalt blue sky, gamine curves and a Cote d’Azur tan! Especially, when we’re talking about the opportunity to