bohemianism
The stark horror of Barbara Comyns’s fiction was all too autobiographical
Comyns’s fans have long enjoyed the novels’ macabre details and black humour. Now Avril Horner reveals their disturbing sources
Nicky Haslam on sharing a lover with Elsa Schiaparelli and the endearing punk of Vivienne Westwood
A comet streaked into France in the 1930s, its fallout sending the staid echelons of haute couture into a tailspin.…
