In bed with Le Corbusier



Tekla Le Corbusier blanket Cashmere Lambswool

More blanket hype.

Not sure how I missed the memo first time round, but Tekla has done a second blanket collection inspired by Le Corbusier.

You can’t get any more classic than these mid-century colourways from Le Corbusier’s palette, the Architectural Polychromy, a collaboration with Les Couleurs Suisse AG. The blankets come in checks or stripes and are woven in Scotland from lambswool and cashmere.

My hot water bottle just exploded in bed for the second time, so maybe it’s time to invest in a Tekla instead…

Tekla Le Corbusier blanket Cashmere Lambswool
Tekla Le Corbusier blanket Cashmere Lambswool

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IMAGES: Tekla Le Corbusier
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Into this: Air Mail’s new beauty beat



Air Mail look - Barbara Sturm profile

“They bled in velvet-tufted hotel suites and town-house living rooms. They bled in conference rooms at Condé Nast and Net-a-Porter. They bled at the bar of the now- defunct Cafe Clover in New York’s West Village neighborhood while the scents of lavender waffles and quinoa pancakes collided in the air for one of the brand’s earliest recorded press events, in 2016. I didn’t get to go, but my boss at the time did. She returned to the office a few fluid ounces lighter, painted with a newfound glow. Not the glow that could, in theory, be delivered by the blood’s own healing proteins when applied topically to the skin—her blood cream would arrive a week later—but the incandescence of somebody recently exposed to an intense source of light. She had met Barbara, and she had fallen in love. The doctor’s charisma had seared her to the bone.”

LOL, this Barbara Sturm profile by Brennan Kilbane in Air Mail is killer. Air Mail has just added its monthly beauty vertical, Look, led by the Linda Wells (former editor of Allure) so I expect more of the same cynical, rigorous and funny interrogations. Air Mail is subscription only but I’d say it’s worth it, especially if Kilbane is a regular fixture.

Great to see Linda Wells on a regular magazine beauty beat again – welcome back.

Air Mail beauty vertical

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Let them wear blankets



Saint Laurent aw23

At the risk of sounding trite, the humble blanket has stepped up as a metaphor of our times and a recurring motif at the AW23 shows. A symbol of post-Covid comfort and tactility as well as warmth (the UK energy crisis continues) and survival (another day, another earthquake), we just can’t be separated from our security blankets.

Styling wise, they appeared as travel accessories in the menswear shows (specifically, Armani’s rolled travel blanket), on blanket influencer Pharrell Williams for his Louis Vuitton announcement photo and Moncler Genius appearance, fashioned into entire coats at Burberry and unfathomably fierce at Saint Laurent (above).

Perhaps most fabulous of all, Saint Laurent’s evening blanket (a tribute to dinner blankets perhaps – remember those?), a sheer, satin-bordered affair draped across skyscraper-esque shoulders and secured with a brooch (below). Sunglasses not optional…

Saint Laurent Aw23 evening blanket

But why wait til next winter? Begg & Co is the Brit fashion pack’s favourite blanket-meisters. They have just joined forces with COS to launch this lambswool and cashmere check blanket – buy it here*.

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IMAGES: Saint Laurent AW23
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Quote of the day: Emma Chamberlain



Emma Chamberlain Louis Vuitton - Paper magazine

“There’s definitely a formula for getting views. It’s something extreme, something eye-catching. I used to play into that a lot more, and that started to feel inorganic. The formula for growing at an exponential rate — it’s kind of always remained the same. It’s click-baity.”

YouTube sensation Emma Chamberlain, New York Times (no paywall)

A good insight into how TikTokkers, Instagrammers and YouTubers are doomed to burnout. The algorithm insists they post more and different content, which leads to inauthetnicity and content for the sake of content. As we all suspected, nobody’s life is that interesting.

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IMAGE: Emma Chamberlain / Paper magazine
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