If you’ve ever flicked through a copy of Vogue and lusted over the luxuries therein, you’ve likely come across the work of Lucinda Chambers. Fashion director at the magazine until 2017, Lucinda worked at the style bible for 36 years (25 of which were in that role), having started as a secretary. During that time, she worked with pretty much anyone who’s anyone, from models and photographers to pop-culture icons and princesses – all while consulting for fashion houses including Prada, Jil Sander and Marni. In more recent years, she’s co-founded Colville, her own brand of extraordinarily gorgeous clothing and homeware, and Collagerie, a shopping platform filled with what can only be described as the most desirable treasures around, all hand-picked. To suggest the woman has style would be an understatement.
With that in mind, it’s hardly revelatory that Lucinda’s home of more than 30 years – an early 20th-century terraced number in Shepherds Bush that she shares with her husband and their cat, BoyCat – is as exquisitely put together as her person (albeit a constant work in progress). None of this is to say, however, that we haven’t been surprised and delighted each time we’ve visited – by her affinity for colour, her natural knack for hosting, her intuitive capability for creating good combinations. So much so that we’ve now come back for a third helping, quizzing this most modish of mavens about the minutiae of her domestic set-up…
