Koenig books hosts a collection of wanky art books with beautiful covers and artistically out of focus photographs. It does have a huge selection though so if you do have £50 to burn on a book you will look through once then leave around to use as a coaster you will no doubt find something [...]

It was after talking to his Royal Lowness, King of Soho, Sebastian Horsley that I decided to try out the Lorelei as it’s one of Sebastian’s favourites. I’d walked past it countless times without it registering, mainly because it always looked closed and I never trust places in Soho that aren’t widely known. Well the [...]

These days it is getting increasingly more difficult to find nice places to go in central London. We are losing everything to corporations. I know that’s such a cliched thing to say, but it’s true and should be pointed out more often.  It’s not all bad though. A few little places pop up now and [...]

Fortnum and Mason is a palace of food, it’s also a one-stop-tourist hole from hell. What was once the grocer to Queen Victoria’s court is now a giant food themed gift shop (unless you buy all your food in pretty tins). But what a gift shop it is. The window displays are worth a visit [...]

I’m frequently drawn in to Bang bang by a cute pair of Chanel flats or a Vivienne Westwood jacket that I kid myself will be in my price range, they are after all second hand. That’s the problem with designer vintage, they charge you more than what the item cost brand new for the privilege [...]

I’m standing outside Rokit in Covent Garden, pacing back and forth deciding whether or not to go in, I could just have a quick look, I doubt there will be anything I want, well what’s the point of going in then? Well there might be something I want, something that would infinitely improve my life [...]

I have a routine where each month at some point I go to borders and gather as many magazines off the racks as I can carry, all the while avoiding the irritated glare of the store assistants who know fine well that I have no intention of either a) buying any of them b) putting [...]

Magma is one of those lovely bookshops which sells all those wanky graphics books and expensive documentary dvd’s about fashion designers, plus every arty magazine in circulation, literally floor to ceiling, with guys who dress like members of Blur standing around with an open book looking into space, mouth slightly open as they’ve just found [...]

Tucked away up a narrow flight of stairs above the Soho bookshop on Charing Cross road is a little designer bookshop specialising in fashion and art books, many of which are hard to find. It is also home to a vast collection of the kinds of glossy magazines that no one ever reads as they [...]

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I don’t go to galleries very often. This is generally because I HATE THEM. I invariably walk in the front door do a 360 degree spin and walk out again but not without commenting, hopefully within earshot of gallerist/artist/owner whoever, that I can’t understand how the artist could stand back, look at their arrangement [...]

Often, I find the best way to ease into a conversation with someone you have just met is to talk about things you both hate – talking about something you both love inevitably can lead to who likes it more or who liked it first. With Sketch love and hate swing dramatically depending on whom [...]

Selfridges always serves to remind me that money does not buy happiness. Yet it’s not happiness I want it’s money. On every visit I mentally spend hundreds of pounds. This department store (for want of a better term) is the best in the world. Forget dowdy and dated can’t move for the fat tourists Harrods [...]

Okay so perhaps Liberty is the most perfect shop in London. It’s like Selfridges just smaller and more edited. They sell the most beautiful stuff, Diptyque perfume, Prestat chocolate, Aesop cosmetics all housed in an amazing Tudor building. It should have “Dreams are the only luxury of the poor” as its motto. I adore [...]

So once a year I turn a year older and my darling sister softens the blow by taking me to the restaurant of my choice. This year it was Sketch Gallery. I’m already a huge fan of Sketch, it can do no wrong in my book despite the fact that people think it’s ridiculous and [...]