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    ‘My style icons are the women I’m related to’: fashion royalty Lucie de la Falaise talks taste

    The design consultant and former model on mustard, starburst mirrors and her late mother-in-law Anita Pallenberg

    Lucie de la Falaise in her West Sussex home
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    The designer and philanthropist on cake, community and creating change

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    Artist Mr Bingo: ‘Nudism is the freest state you can be in’

    The founder of the eponymous shop on postcards, litter picking and the joy of being naked

    Mr Bingo tucking into a pizza at his home in London
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    ‘I look like a design serial killer’: Queer Eye’s Jeremiah Brent talks taste

    The designer loves the Vienna Secession, slapstick humour and is ‘a psycho’ for scent

    Jeremiah Brent in the formal living room of his New York home
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
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    ‘Be strong and stand hard’ – CDLP co-founder Christian Larson talks taste

    The film and music video director loves vintage ashtrays, Versace sunglasses and ‘Lost in Music’ by Gay Marvine

    Christian Larson at home in Stockholm, with an early-’90s mirror-coated telephone and ’80s leather Nicoletti Salotti lounge chair
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
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    Jilly Cooper: ‘Is sex an indulgence? Not any more’

    The novelist talks greyhounds, Joanna Lumley and her typewriter, Monica

    Jilly Cooper photographed at home in the Cotswolds
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
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    Ballerina Francesca Hayward talks taste

    The principal dancer of The Royal Ballet twirls for Tim Tams, Tchaikovsky and taxis

    Francesca Hayward at her home in London
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Politics
    The life and tastes of Anthony Scaramucci

    The financier and former White House communications director on Long Island, Lamborghinis and what he learnt from Trump

    Anthony Scaramucci at home in Long Island with issue #1 of The Amazing New Adventures of Superman
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Travel
    Hotelier Julia Ashwood talks taste

    The co-founder of Byron Bay’s Sun Ranch on seeing the sun rise, Shibuya Crossing and her suitcase essentials 

    Julia Ashwood at home in New South Wales
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Design
    Danish designer Bonnie Hvillum talks sustainable taste

    The winner of the inaugural Bentley Lighthouse Award for eco design on Karen Blixen, making wine and her sneaky chicken, Eva

    Bonnie Hvillum in the garden of her farmhouse outside Copenhagen
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
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    Architect William Smart on David Sedaris, great jackets and his space-age home in Sydney

    The founder of Smart Design Studio talks taste

    WIlliam Smart at home in Sydney with his dog, Digby
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Books
    Writer and culinary historian Jessica B Harris talks taste

    The author loves James Baldwin, French Wordle and enjoying her ‘retirement renaissance’

    Jessica B Harris outside her home in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Style
    Italian shoemaker Giuseppe Santoni talks taste

    The executive president of his eponymous brand loves affogato, ivy flat caps and his lucky colour, orange

    Giuseppe Santoni in the living room of his Milan apartment
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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    New York style legend Anna Sui talks taste

    The designer loves Yoku Moku cookies, old Seventeen magazines and her signature red lipstick

    Anna Sui at home in New York
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Visual Arts
    Artist and maker Rio Kobayashi talks taste

    The London-based designer loves cycling, hand-shaped soap and the rules of a Japanese bath

    Rio Kobayashi wears Massimo Osti Studio jacket and trousers at home in Hackney, London
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Design
    Lissa Carmona, CEO of design firm Etel, talks taste

    The curator loves minimalism, the Brazilian modernists and her home in the Mantiqueira Mountains

    Lissa Carmona in her living room at home in São Paulo
  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
    Style
    My signature look is...

    Lykke Li’s black or white, Mr Chow’s moustache, Penelope Tree’s fringe – our Aesthetes share their style go-tos

    Lykke Li at home in Los Angeles
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Style
    Art collector Batia Ofer talks taste

    The London-based philanthropist loves kohl eyeliner, Lalique deer and a dream-filled sleep

    Batia Ofer at home in London
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Books
    The Aesthetes’ pick of the best books, podcasts and music for summer

    From gothy pop to witchy reads, 20 tastemakers share their favourite recommendations

    Recent reads at Courtney Love’s home in London
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    HTSIThe HTSI adrenaline issue
    Architect Eugene Tssui: ‘I would like to have been a benevolent dictator’

    The architect and Olympian gets pumped on pull-ups, Przewalski’s horse dung and Superman

    Eugene Tssui at home in Emeryville, California
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Books
    Eden Revisited novelist Umberto Pasti talks taste

    The writer and celebrated gardener loves begonias, Botticelli’s Primavera and birds of paradise

    Umberto Pasti in the sitting room of his home in Tangier
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Sport
    Surf legend and artist Tony Caramanico talks taste

    The artist loves Warhols, a banging breakfast and the tropical rock of Jimmy Buffett

    Tony Caramanico at home in Montauk, Long Island
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Style
    New York chef and TV host Sophia Roe talks taste

    Diamond Crystal kosher salt, spoons and Donna Summer’s fringe top her list of likes 

    Sophia Roe at home in New York
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Visual Arts
    Dutch painter Peggy Kuiper talks taste

    The Amsterdam-based artist loves “oversized fits”, early-morning dips and Cy Twombly’s Bacchus series

    Peggy Kuiper in the studio at her home in Amsterdam
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Fashion
    Model, muse and novelist Penelope Tree talks taste

    The fashion legend loves Australian art, her birdsong app and Co-op champagne

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