In my view, you can’t trust anyone who doesn’t drink or doesn’t eat carbs. Additionally—according to my manifesto—those who wear Laura Ashley should be lumped into the distrust category, but they’re not exactly edible … or are they? Dutch design studio, OOOMs has created a  wonderful little contraption that can either be used as a [...]

Too posh to use sandpaper-like loo roll for your behind? Well, enter Waitrose—Britain’s upper middle-class supermarket/pick-up joint—and their cashmere toilet paper. Carla Smith, buyer for Waitrose, said: “Cashmere provides that stamp of quality to any fashion garment from a designer suit to the finest luxury knitwear. It’s indulgent, it’s stylish and it’s helping provide that [...]

What was the last lie you told? Was it when you told your housemate you had no idea who ate his home-grown butternut pumpkin (the one he’d lovingly cultivated for three months)? Was it when you told your partner they were and/or are the sole human occupant of your sexual fantasies? Or was it when [...]

So we all have one of those friends who is perpetually clumsy and who really should have a plastic drop sheet follow them wherever they go. In my circle, her name is Jye—gorgeous, intelligent, caring, hilarious; she should really pay double the premium on her private health insurance. Norwegian designer, Kristine Bjaadal created ‘Underfull’ for the [...]

According to some nay-sayers, the French aren’t particularly particular to personal hygiene, but having French heritage myself, I say phooey to that! They invented perfume, for God’s sake! In a recent initiative luxury cosmetics retailer, Sephora introduced a CK One vending machine where commuters could purchase small samples of the fragrance. From February 7 through February [...]

With New York Fashion Week drawing to a close and the onslaught of the rest of the 2010 fall season following—London, Milan, Paris—even the most fashionable can forget their manners. Party after party, litres of Belevdere and Moët sloshing around in the catacombs of one’s stomach and hectic schedules impeded by geographic diversity, it’s no [...]

They say a tradesman never blames his tools, however, I couldn’t even use a shifting  spanner, let alone a band saw so in this incidence, there’s an exception to the rule. That said, after a few server hiccups (*shakes fist at WordPress*) we’re pleased to announce that we’re back after a brief hiatus to give you [...]

One’s offspring can often provide a convincing excuse to skive off work when that post-Christmas party hangover makes it impossible to rise in the morning. “I’m sorry, but little Johnny has gastro” could quite easily be “I’ve been driving the porcelain bus” and an immediate reprieve from office duties without question. For those of us [...]

This decade’s trend of creative baby-naming has been an elitist’s dream and a primary school teacher’s worst nightmare. Multiple ‘i’s and silent ‘ph’s are the hallmarks of aspirational individuality and make buying novelty mugs near impossible. When someone gets a little Hollywood with their naming rights, it’s likely that little consideration has been paid to the international impact [...]

As the days heat up (in the southern hemisphere) and the calendar becomes more jam-packed it’s a sure-fire way of knowing that the onslaught of summer festivals is about to begin. In Australia, first up is Stereosonic, which recently attracted media attention when they banned shirtless men from attending the event in a move to make the [...]