Forget your middle-class aspirations of a bouji garden office duplex — fashion has decreed the humble Wendy house to be the external living area flex you didn’t know your toddler (and, er, David Cameron) was an early adopter of. At Prada’s June outing the models trotted out of a little white wooden house to the sounds of blaring techno (nursery rhymes are not the vibe); over at Sacai, Abe Chitose built a wooden house-like framework structure for her show set; Bianca Saunders featured a T-shirt with her ‘happy home recipe’ (one barrel of laughter, five spoons of hope, two spoons of tenderness) emblazoned on the front with a naif drawing of a house to accompany it; while at Dior, Kim Jones leaned into knick-knack accompaniments via his collaboration with South African ceramicist and artist Hylton Nel. Never one to miss a whimsical mood, JW Anderson offered homey (literally) intarsia knits, left.
Staying in has never looked quite so adorable. Bored of all that pedestrian cutlery jarring your drawers? Welcome one of our favourite London-based jewellers, Rosh Mahtani of Alighieri, to the tablescape game. Taking its cue from her esoteric inspirations, the new Casa range includes deliciously crafted candlesticks, dishes and cutlery, and is described as ‘rituals for the home’.
Mahtani says, ‘The lighting of the candle is an incredibly spiritual practice for me; as a child, I saw my grandparents light a candle to begin an Indian prayer ceremony; when I’m at work, it .