Postcard from Madagascar
Himali Singh Soin’s travels span spaces from Shoreditch to the South Pole. We’d love to share this writer, artist, curator and traveler’s recommendations for all of them, but for now,…
Into the wild with Bharati Wadhwani: Safar traveller
Bharati Wadhwani is the owner of Safar Traveller, a boutique travel company that specialises in Safari’s in Asia and Africa. Now if that isn’t enough to convince you, she’s an…
Safar Traveller: A packing list for a safari
Packing for a Safari can be a challenge. When in the midst of a jungle, one needn’t fuss about looking pretty, or carrying cute outfits, because your #instatravels lens is…
Patterns of Nico: the polka dot
I love the polka dot; it expresses the black and white theme without being monotonous or repetitive. In the 1930s, Frank Sinatra sang about a woman clad in “polka dots…
Fabrics of Nicobar: Chanderi
We love that chanderi is an all natural fabric, that keeps our pieces airy, light and most importantly, Indian. It takes colour beautifully, the fabric is delicate and needs to…
Fabrics of Nicobar: Matelasse
Matelasse, pronounced Mat-La-Say, (we struggled with this one a fair bit to start) is one of our very favourite fabrics in our home collection. Closely resembling French quilting and with…
The Wedding Edit
It’s one thing to marvel at a gorgeously draped sari, and another thing altogether to replicate it. This is where we step in for a tag team effort at draping,…
Pocket squares, many ways
Because accessorising should be fun. USE IT AS A CUFF This one’s self-explanatory. AS A HAIR-TIE Wrap it around a top-knot if your hair’s long, a tighter wrap for a…
We take on the Harem Pant
We won’t say harem pant, Persia and MC Hammer in the same breath, but we will say the evolution of the harem pant’s been constant, and it’s a silhouette we’ve…
Cocktail Club: The Nico 75
There are dueling histories about the French 75: some say it was invented in flapper-era Paris, at Harry’s, the historic bar at the Ritz. Others believe it originated in America,…