preludes

As beautiful as the chance encounter of an umbrella and a sewing machine on a dissection table.

I like beautiful things: vintage lace dresses, bone china teacups, winter mornings, polaroid photographs. I love new Moleskine notebooks, and old engraved lockets.

My heart belongs to The Cure. But I'll listen to pretty much anything.

Currently listening to: She & Him, Feist, Patrick Wolf, Bright Eyes.

Some of my favourite authors are Kurt Vonnegut, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Vladimir Nabakov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Lewis Carroll, Margaret Atwood and Jeffrey Eugenides. I adore Tristan Tzara. My favourite poets are T.S Eliot and Jeffrey McDaniels.

I love movies with a strong visual aesthetic, such as Lost Highway, Amelie, Velvet Goldmine, Marie Antoinette, Edward Scissorhands and Buffalo 66.

Twin Peaks is the greatest television show ever made. I also enjoy 24, Lost, Dexter, Gossip Girl, The O.C, Six Feet Under and Deadwood.

Favourite designers: Lover, Miu Miu, Chloe and Christian Louboutin. My favourite jewellery is by William Llewellyn Griffiths, Julia De Ville and Tiffany & Co.

My current perfume is Lolita Lempicka Eau de Toilette.