Finally after being delayed by the Covid19 epidemic and enforced museum closures, Beautiful People will open at the Fashion and Textile...

In part 1 I pointed out that Granny Takes A Trip never really got into the hippie, ethnic clothing look. I suspect that John Pearse's mod...

This post has come as rather a surprise to me. I was always intending to write about the important influence eastern culture on the...

William Morris had a golden rule: “Have nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful” Cleo & I have...

I just wanted to do a very short post to announce that I'm providing an accompanying image and photography Pinterest page to give full...

"I've just read your blog......it's fantastic." Well, what can I say… it’s praise indeed when that’s the opening line of an email from...

As we're right at the beginning of our Beautiful People posts, I thought I’d start by saying that the mid to late Sixties is a period...

Welcome to our celebration of the radical and transformative fashion which exploded onto the streets of Chelsea in the mid-Sixties....