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Cos magazine

My Mum has been sending newspaper clippings to me for years along with notes saying, ‘thought this might be interesting for the blog.’ Last night she arrived to stay with this new Cos magazine and I ‘thought this might be interesting for the blog,’ before she even said it. Cos is a brand, like Toast, […]

This is 50…

…and this is a professional selfie by photographer Kristin Perers on her gorgeous blog This is 50. ‘I started it as I was approaching my own 50th,’ she says. ‘Coming from a background of fashion photography and before that styling – which for better or worse are highly influenced by image – I was nearly […]

Exhibition: Michael Verheyden

I thought I was going to post about an exhibition I like the look of, launching at Willer gallery on the 11 March. The subject is Belgian designer Michael Verheyen whose beautiful objects look sooooo tactile and simultaneously too expensive to touch if you’ve got the Macnair clumsy gene. I’m not just posting about that […]

Miami highlights

Sigh, the view from our hotel roof last week in Miami. You could just see the sea behind all the palm trees and high rise hotels along the front. I loved looking across to that hotel with its semi-patterned facade. To be honest, we spent most of the time at the beach, but I can […]

Miami baby and The Webster

What a place Miami is. I’ll be chucking a load of highlight pictures at you in a few days time – buildings mainly – but for now, while I sift out the most kitsch and colourful, here’s a chichi shop I visited on Collins Avenue in South Beach. It’s called The Webster and comes from […]