Growing up poring over articles about the British royal family and Royal Ascot in domestic yellow press ensured that I became familiar with the name Philip Treacy before my interest in fashion was even nascent. Years later, I've stumbled across my first Philip Treacy hat at a press day here in The Big Smoke - ... Read more
In the midst of colourful Christmas-time shops overflowing with decorations, each window of Stephen Jones' millinery salon in Covent Garden displays only two hats against white background. In the left window sits a ladies headpiece made of what is best described as cerulean blue leafs reaching up to the sky. It's so extraordinary that even ... Read more
Meet the glamorous black hat first introduced in my ultimate summer post. I never wear it because I imagine the hat would only feel at home on the French riviera - a poetic interpretation suggesting its prime time hasn't come yet. Whimsical perhaps, but I've bought pieces knowing I am not going to start wearing ... Read more
The season of spending my time between Ljubljana and seaside has opened. It is so soothing to get away from Ljubljana sometimes, the Ljubljana of too strong perfumes, unsanitary obsession with money, connections and brands, faux intellectuals and uncultured parvenus from towns and villages so small you won't find them on the map*; they waste ... Read more