As soon as Karl Lagerfeld showed those ridiculous(ly sublime) hula-hoop bags on the Chanel runway for spring, my colleague Dodai and I knew we had to make one. “It’s not up to me to say it is chic,” ...

“An interior,” Coco Chanel once said, “is the natural projection of the soul.” Given her obsession with coromandel screens, maybe her soul belonged in the Far East. The story goes that the 18-year-old ...