

TALES FROM BELLA'S WORLD...


MYTHICAL BUNNY
‘Hey, Bel, will you come with me to a Cloud Workshop?’ My dearest friend Susie Cave was on the phone, telling me about an artist called Deborah Smith who she had met in...

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
Major moments of learning in my life have been entwined with Vivienne Westwood. I first worked in her punk shop Seditionaries when I was 17. Every now and then Vivienne would come into the shop with a...

TALES FROM THE 90'S: DVF IN NYC
Diane von Furstenberg, aka DVF, is all over town at the moment. She popped over during London Fashion Week to celebrate the opening of her latest shop which is all black lacquer, mirrors...

CUTTING DAD'S HAIR
would pick up the phone and call his barber, who worked from the Berkeley
Hotel.

DOG STORY: HOW IT ALL BEGAN

BELLA'S ARRIVAL IN TOWN SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF HER SISTER
On my 9th birthday my father gave me a copy of Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc. This sounds like a classic parent to child birthday ritual but it had so much more significance...

DAVID HOCKNEY
There is a secret quality to David Hockney’s paintings. When you look at his swimming pools, you feel you are getting a tiny window into a world - and you can’t stop thinking...