The details that make style and interiors feel considered
Practical guides to dressing well, recognising quality and creating a home that feels considered, warm and timeless.
The Essentials
A selection of the ideas that define Simple Luxuries Diary.
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The Row Formula: How to Dress Effortlessly Elegant
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Why Some Effortless Outfits Look Elegant and Others Feel Unfinished
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How to Use Linen in Interior Design
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How to Dress for Your Body Type Using Proportion, Not Shape Rules
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Frama Copenhagen: The Formula to Create Cohesive Interiors
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How to Make Your Home Look More Expensive: Thoughtful Design
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Clothes that feel effortless but considered. Interiors that are warm, layered and refined. And understanding why certain proportions, materials and details work while others do not.
Simple Luxuries Diary explores the principles behind personal style and thoughtful interiors through practical guides to quality, composition and creating a more considered everyday life.
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Recent guides on personal style, thoughtful interiors and the details that make everyday life feel more considered.
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I have always liked Audo Copenhagen interiors, but for a while I couldn’t quite put my finger on why. There are a lot of neutral colours, simple furniture and natural materials, which isn’t exactly unusual in Scandinavian interiors. Yet the rooms don’t have that very pale, slightly empty look that minimal interiors can sometimes have.…
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How should a blazer fit? It is usually easy to tell when a blazer is simply too small or too big. The harder decision is when your usual size looks right through the shoulders but feels tight somewhere else, and going up a size changes the shape completely. In that case, another size may not…
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I have been looking at Khaite for a while because the clothes are often much more wearable than the styling first suggests. There are plenty of pieces I could imagine wearing on their own: straight jeans, leather jackets, simple knits, black boots, long coats. But the outfits never feel basic.
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The difficult part of learning how to layer clothes in winter is not staying warm. It is staying warm without feeling as if every layer has added another inch everywhere. A winter outfit can look great before the coat goes on, then suddenly feel too heavy once you add the scarf, the boots and everything…
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I have seen bags that look irresistible when they are new and lose much of their appeal once they start showing wear. Others become even more beautiful as the leather softens, and I find myself liking the used version more than the pristine one. If you are wondering how to choose a quality handbag, it…
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Some clothes seem to age almost immediately, while others stay in rotation for years. Price and quality matter, of course, but they are only part of it. A good sweater can still lose its shape if it is hung wet. Beautiful leather can dry out. A silk blouse can be washed far more often than…
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The best Scandinavian fashion brands have a way of making you stop and look twice. It might be the cut of a coat, the shape of a dress, a beautiful knit or simply the way the clothes feel polished without looking overdone. Some are known for beautiful simplicity, others for colour, unusual proportions, romantic dresses…
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With tailored trousers, you often notice the effect before you know why it works. One pair makes the legs look longer and the whole outfit feel more polished. Another feels heavy through the hips or stops awkwardly at the shoe. The difference is usually in a few small choices: where the waist sits, how the…
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A piece of furniture can have beautiful wood, generous proportions and expensive-looking hardware and still be disappointing once you live with it. With quality furniture, the details usually hold up too: the drawer sits properly in its frame, the table feels steady, the fabric is neatly handled around the corners and the materials make sense…
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When looking for the best wool coats for women, the label can make you feel more certain than you really are. “100% wool” sounds reassuring. Cashmere sounds even better. A four-figure price can make you assume the rest has already been taken care of. But none of those things, on their own, tell you whether…
A weekly guide to understanding why outfits and interiors work, with practical details you can use in your own wardrobe and home.