Sandra‘s Closet

Few houses have turned a season into a signature quite the way Hublot has. Since 2017, the brand has claimed the Mediterranean summer as its stage, and each year the launch arrives less like a product and more like a state of mind. For 2026, that mood softens. The palette turns to pastel ceramic, s...

Air conditioned by design in the London Heat. The city is at its best in sunshine, and so, I decided, was I.

A dress in neon green and yellow, with no interest in subtlety, different, rounded, sculptural, almost egg-like, it holds its own shape rather than the body’s, which leaves...

Standing in front of Fiori, I almost vanish. My ensemble is a field of blossoms, and against Sofia Cacciapaglia‘s monumental Italian flowers it reads as the gentlest camouflage, woman and canvas folding into one bloom. For a moment I am not in front of the painting at all. I am inside it. C...

Walking into the John Madejski Garden on Wednesday evening, you could feel that this one was special. The V&A Summer Party was turning ten, and the museum had pulled out all the stops, throwing open its courtyard fo...

Flying High: My First Impressions of SWISS Senses on the A350

There are people who view flying as a necessary evil. I am not one of them. For me, stepping onto a plane is pure joy, a ritual I look forward to the moment I book a ticket. So when I flew the brand-new