HELLO FROM PARIS : two days ago, spontaneously booked another flight to Paris, boarding the plane early this morning; and at this very moment, writing to you from a hotel room, the windows flung open to the wrought iron of the Juliet balcony and the sounds of the street below.
AS YOU KNOW, WE WERE IN OXFORDSHIRE recently, for shop business and studio visits, and are extravagantly excited to be introducing a few new items to the line-up, including the loveliest things in shades of Blanc and French Grey and Bruyère, from a French tannery we have been working with for the past few months. And in all the busy-ness of the past few weeks, hadn't a chance to tell you about the latest addition -- the new LONDON URBAN PACK -- made of ultra-lightweight Nappa leather, it is the NEW COOL in sport luxe and the perfect intersection between form & function, ROCK & refined . . .
DO YOU REMEMBER all those months ago, had hinted at an enormous and enormously exciting project in the works? Well it’s here! it’s here! at long last: the brand new This Is Glamorous! After months, [months!] of hard work, we are so very excited to reveal an entirely new website. A very special thank you [& so much love] goes to P., who spent hundreds of hours dreaming up and researching the concept for the site, bringing his ideas to life with our designers & developers in months of correspondence that added up to over three hundred emails.
RATHER THAN beginning my mornings with a book as usual, have been beginning them instead, with the Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at John Hopkins University (JHU) map, a far less pleasant way to begin the day, but given the current state of things, necessary