I'm not sure what I'd do with them exactly, but Laura Long's knitted dolls, inspired by fairytales, are completely charming. The miniature clothes are particularly adorable - I'd like a human-sized version of Little Red Riding Hood's skirt and Gretel's dress please.
Emily Dyson at Couverture has such a good eye - there are always things I like in her shop. She champions small designers and often has stuff you can't find anywhere else, like Mocuin or Virginia Johnson... Her husband's shop, Garbstore, downstairs, sells some of my favourite sorts of clothes for men: cagoules and Nordic jumpers for urban dwellers. The homewares are mostly too minimal-Scandinavian or Sixties-graphic for my taste, but I have really taken a shine this tweedy purse and throw.
Inside could be the most mundane present imaginable, but just think how thrilled you'd be to get a parcel wrapped in this Italian botanical paper from Manufactum.
It's been on my mind for some time now that I have need for a pair of plus-fours. I live in a flat in Shepherds Bush (with not even a garden) so I don't, in reality, have either the need nor the right to equip myself with shooting attire, but I often find myself hankering after country clothes in the city. A lovely tweed hunting jacket with red felt under the collar, long shooting socks, a deerstalker: proper clothes with both style and purpose. I have just taken possession of this fabulous pair of tweed breeks - high-waisted, silk-lined - and I'm smitten. I'm sporting them with a knitted cardi, the thickest woolly tights and (looking a bit like a mad person, probably) these shoes.
