Archive - Books & Nice Things

022 Rigorous exuberance

Life lessons from Watches & Wonders, always meet your internet friends, balancing the mental load and brushing past Greta Lee.

May 4 •

March 2025

021 Corporate sleaze

The Boom Boom to fur is back pipeline, neckties and do we know how to dress for the office - or be a person?

Mar 22 •

February 2025

January 2025

017 You don’t need a uniform, and other ‘notions of ourselves’

Also, Bridget Jones forever and Hugh Grant’s valiant quest for non-stretch jeans.

Jan 24 •

December 2024

November 2024

014 A leaf in the wind of a trend

On style and life lessons from DVF, Zadie Smith and Martin Amis, sequins as a public service and why we need real trends.

Nov 13, 2024 •

October 2024

013 Bonkbusters forever

Jilly Cooper's world is just what we need right now - including all of the so bad it's amazing fashion.

Oct 26, 2024 •

012 Protest boots

My favourite genres of magazine questions, no more 'buttery leather,' the Vogue forums and the new fashion girl 'shoulder robing'.

Oct 19, 2024 •

011 Fashion should be as fresh as salad!

Gaby Aghion was so right, the case for "aesthetic danger", Chloë Sevigny is a "schlepper" like every other mum and fashion magazines were everything to…

Oct 11, 2024 •

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