How to Start Your Own Business
Feeling all entrepreneurial and fancy opening up your own business? Lucy Werner of Wern PR in Shoreditch shares her top tips for bigging up your […]
Category: life + style
Bert & May, Handmade Tiles, East London
BY ANOOP PARIKH Old stuff is cool. It’s axiomatic in East London. Reclaiming old fittings, repurposing found objects, and questioning the idea that new is […]
Barbican Estate
BY KELLY BESWICK Most East Londoners will be familiar with the Barbican Estate’s Brutalist exterior, but thanks to photographer and resident Anton Rodriguez, we get […]
Interview: Marawa the Amazing
Best of East London
Sustainable, Ethical & Affordable Shopping in East London
Barnardo’s Summer Trend Book Inspires East London shoppers Shoppers who visit Barnardo’s eight East London stores can seek out affordable fashion inspiration with help from […]
Fabulous Furniture, Columbia Road
Wawa is all about tailored seating and sleeping designs which enhance the consumer’s life
Interview: Influencer Katya Katkova
Lithuanian-born Katya Katkova’s carefully curated Instagram account @eastlondonmornings attracts nearly 70,000 followers and her passion for her adopted corner of the capital cannot be doubted. […]
Interview: Artist Hassan Hajjaj
BY KELLY BESWICK His art is a marvellous, mighty mash-up of Arabic aesthetic and East London street style, which is hardly surprising considering Hassan Hajjaj […]
Jenny Lewis, Hackney Photographer
By Kelly Beswick Photographer and long-time Hackney resident Jenny Lewis has worked for many top publications, specialising in intimate and arresting celebrity portraits. She’s been […]
Interview: Harriet Horton, Taxidermist East London
BY KELLY BESWICK Taxidermy is firmly back in fashion, but in it’s modern guise it’s about ethically sourced animals and artistic pieces and no one […]
Interview: Artist Camille Walala
BY KELLY BESWICK You’ve probably found yourself staring up in wonder at her pastel graffiti on Brick Lane or her graphic murals around Stoke Newington, […]
Interview: Danny Sutton, Sutton & Sons Fish & Chips
Danny Sutton, aka Danny the Fish, is owner of fish-battering Mecca, Sutton & Sons (their cod is to die for). Here, he reveals what took […]
Interview: East London Fashion Designer Carli Pearson
Carli Pearson’s luxury womenswear label, CIMONE is creating a stir in the world of haute couture. Formerly of Stella McCartney, Alexander Wang, Pucci and McQ, she talks going solo and why the East is where it’s at
Interview: Sam Francis, X7eaven
BY KELLY BESWICK Known in show business as the triple threat, singing, dancing and acting have taken Sam Francis all over the world, choreographing on […]
Interview: Deborah Baker, Fiorentini + Baker
BY KELLY BESWICK Transforming a Victorian button factory into a shop and home was something Deborah Baker took in her stride, but then again, she […]
Interview: Maude Hirst
She’s bowled audiences over with her performance in Vikings, and now she’s got Hollywood sniffing at her door. But actress Maude Hirst won’t be moving […]
Interview: James Ramsden, Pidgin
BY KELLY BESWICK Blogger, podcaster, writer and author, as long as it’s related to food, James Ramsden is your man. Having broken out into the […]
Interview: Henry Miller Fine Art, Walthamstow
BY KELLY BESWICK He discovered a passion for collecting art at 17, and despite pursuing a career in law, Henry Miller couldn’t shake off the […]
Interview: Gabriella Thorpe, Vintage Velvet Vodka
By Kelly Beswick A self-confessed bon vivant with excellent knowledge of the drinks trade, Gabriella Thorpe decided to marry her two passions and create a […]
The Goodhood Store, Curtain Road
SHOP LONDON: An Insider’s guide to Spending Like a Local by Emma McCarthy, Francis Lincoln, £9.99 East London brand Goodhood reinvents the department store set-up […]