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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Alice Fisher and Eva Wiseman

This week, we love to buy…

A model in three-quarter length jeans and a skimpy vest, standing, hands in pockets, with her back to a pool
Water colours: Sweaty Betty’s double denims

Make a bigger splash

Sweaty Betty’s double denim collection makes you look at jeans in a different light. These lightweight chambray-style track pants are as comfortable and cosy as they are stylish. Boro Boro vest £65, and Konara trousers £110, both sweatybetty.com

As nature intended

A glass bottle of perfume with Jo Malone on the label

Jo Malone’s new perfume range is all about the magic of the forest. Think oaks, redcurrants and hazelnuts. Now you can smell of the great and delicious outdoors without leaving your sofa. English Oak and Redcurrant cologne £44, jomalone.com

One, two, colour my shoe

A pair of children's shoes with cat faces on in black and white with pens nearby

Charlotte Olympia has collaborated with Crayola to create slip-on sneakers for kids. Yes they’re pricy, but they come with special pens for kids to colour them in themselves, and ensure they’re the coolest cats at the start of term. Crayola sneakers £195, charlotteolympia.com

A loving spoonful

Stainless steel measuring spoon set

Arket, the new brand from H&M, calls itself “a modern-day market”. In its new London store, you can pick up almost anything, from classic sweaters, to these little dainty spoons. Set of spoons £7, arket.com

The fine art of bookmaking

Here’s an exact copy of Fortunato Depero’s 1927 masterpiece of graphic design and bookmaking – Depero Futurista. This is the original “book as object”: you can even unbolt it if you like, and display each page as art. The Bolted Book £125, waterstones.com

Worth a lie in

A double bed made with pink and white bedding in a rustic room

Made from 100% natural stonewashed French flax, Piglet’s range of colourful linen bedding gets softer and softer with wear. These are bedroom basics for those of us with aspirations of perfection, but who long ago lost the will to iron. Piglet bedding From £32, pigletinbed.com

New comic book heroes

Drawing of Nick Cave on the cover of a comic book

Already a hero to many, musician and author Nick Cave now gets his own comic book. This graphic novel tells Cave’s story from his childhood in Australia to success with the Bad Seeds. The book is from independent publishers Self Made Hero. See its website for similar works on Fidel Castro, Josephine Baker and – upcoming – Jeremy Corbyn. Nick Cave: Mercy on Me by Reinhard Kleist £14.99, selfmadehero.com

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