It’s très difficile… However, if you want to give it your best shot and imitate Nicola’s effortless style, you need a few things… First you need a knapsack on your back.. the Swedes make the best ones. Some skinny Parisian jeans…

His style is his own, I don’t even know if it can be pinned down. Some days he can look like he should be drifting down a canal in a breton stripe and a straw boater. The other day he was action man. But what I do know is that each day he looks sharp...

How beautiful is our window installation this month ? It is certainly cheering me up on the coldest start to summer in 50 years !

Allow me to introduce you to Clara. With golden locks and a penchant for cupcakes, her christmas list is just like she is… cute as a button.

If you were wondering what we want for Christmas… look no further, these are our favourites in no particular order. Let’s begin with what Karina wants…

We are so chuffed to be in Monocle this month. The champagne flowed and after much page turning, page 160 was deemed our favourite in this issue.

The Hill-side ties and scarves have come to us from Brooklyn via cotton mills in Japan. If you missed out on the first round, never fear, we just received a brown paper package that was actually tied up with string, and nestled underneath were what we have termed the 7 days of christmas ties....

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It’s often the most spontaneous decisions that are the best!After a few wines at Gnome on Friday night I asked Melbourne artist Al Stark to come and paint our window the next day, and he kindly obliged....

Scented candles are everywhere, they seem to be a definite shop staple nowadays. Whats not to like ? They are the perfect stocking filler, everyone loves a nice smell. But we particularly love these new editions…exclusive to The Standard Store ( also stocked in Colette, and Corso Como, nuff said ! )The french brand Ligne Blanche combines images of Contemporary art with candles and porcelain. In collaboration with the Guggenheim and foundations of Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring and Basquiat , we think its a perfect match.

Another one for the boys.. Sunspel, the purveyor of lustworthy undergarms, has arrived at the standard store. Hailing from middle England and manufactured using some of the original techniques from the brands birth year in 1860, sunspel’s philosophy is to “eliminate the unnecessary while perfecting the essentials”...

The sun is shining and its warm at last, Tessa from Blooms for rooms dropped in some lovely flowers yesterday, and this beautiful Cherry Apple tree from the growers market. I think we can safely say goodbye Winter and hello Spring.