‘An antidote to modern life.’ That’s how Carolyn Denham, 59, describes the haberdashery business that’s captured the zeitgeist with its workwear-inspired clothing patterns, its gorgeous...
Sitting in their Clerkenwell design studio, Harriet Wallace-Jones and Emma Sewell are enthusiastic and friendly and have worked together for so long, they finish each others sentences off. The pair sp...
‘Jewellery is extremely special. It stirs the senses, represents strong emotional bonds and forms sentimental attachments,’ says jeweller Ruth Donaldson.
Nicky Hirst transforms found objects into works of art. The 59-year-old artist says her practise ‘sits between sculpture and installation.
Physiotherapist-turned jewellery designer Angela Benjamin works from a garden workshop affectionately known as her ‘She Cave’ in West London. Hand-making sustainable, silver jewellery bega...
Yvonne Modupe Telford is an online phenomenon. While shops have been shuttered and big retail brands have gone out of business, her fashion label Kemi Telford (Kemi is short for Oluwakemi, Yv...
Many readers have asked where my chunky silver rings are from. And now for the big reveal….
Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Mehala Ford moved to the UK when she was four months old and grew up in the north of England, in the 1980s. Coming down to London to study PR and promotion at London Colleg...
Isobel Dennis is the director of the Craft Council’s international modern craft and design fair: Collect. No longer a dirty word, craft has been going through something of a renaissance, ...
Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News’ International Editor. An award-winning war correspondent who has covered many conflicts throughout her career; including Iraq, (she was in Bagdad during the US ...
Spending six years as shopping editor at Elle Decoration magazine under the editorship of Ilse Crawford provided the perfect grounding for style expert Sue Parker. Whose impressive CV also includes a ...
‘Letting Ourselves Go‘ was an empowering discussion on women’s cycling that I attended last year. Designer Alex Feechan had come down from Scotland to sit on the panel at ace ...
Claire Brewster’s artwork is influenced by the British countryside and nature, ‘ I’m endlessly fascinated by nature,’ says the 50-and-a-half-year-old, ‘where we humans ne...
On the wall of Mimi Berry’s showroom-cum-shop is a beautiful Moulton folding bicycle, so the first 10 minutes of our meeting are spent talking enthusiastically about bike design and cycling in L...
It was heartening (excuse the pun) to meet Sofie Layton, an artist who is full of energy and enthusiasm. Collaborating with other artists and more recently medical professionals and patients, she li...
Paris Essex, possibly the best name for a business, ever. The two founders Tiphaine de Lussy the ‘Parisian Cockney’ (born in Paris, has lived in London for many years) and Carolyn Clewer t...
When we meet, Rae Feather is not what I expect at all. Having followed the accessories entrepreneur on Instagram for some time, I’d imagined a 20-something, trust-fund-tastic Sloane.
One thing really did lead to another for freelance fashion editor/ stylist Mouchette Bell. A guest-lecturing position morphed into modelling the student collections at Graduate Fashion Week, where she...
‘I am always trying to combine ideas and aesthetics from the eastern and western worlds,’ London-based artist Lubna Chowdhary tells me, ‘the eastern influence is a very strong part o...
A global business that started in the back of a shop on the King’s Road, The Organic Pharmacy is celebrating its 15th birthday, this year. Now that my book has gone to print and I’ve gon...
Designer Jane Carr studied fashion at Central Saint Martins and then worked in Italy for many years – first as head of print at Versace and then at Jil Sander (when Jil was actually there) ̵...
I bumped into one of my favourite ‘chic not shouty’ bag designers at London Fashion Week. Up bright and early on Sunday morning, Ally Capellino was outside the Margaret Howell show and so ...
Textile and home accessories designer Charlene Mullen has a shop in Shoreditch and a new ceramics collection for Royal Doulton to go with her beautiful hand-embroidered cushions (we have a couple boug...
Actor Amelia Bullmore has appeared in some of my favourite TV programmes: Coronation Street (Steph Barnes), I’m Alan Partridge (girlfriend Sonja) and Twenty Twelve (Kay Hope) – we’ll...