There's nothing that says summer music festivals and beach parties like a hippy headband. And there are none quite so hippy as a leather one with beading, charms, flowers or feathers, which is why...

I may have mentioned (once or twice...) that I am currently enormously pregnant. Well, my four-year-old son, hearing about the baby in *my* tummy....

When I first saw these oddly-appendaged items on the Louis Vuitton runway, I remember thinking that noone would ever be able to wear them and get away with it. In fact, we even featured them in our ugly accessories section.

Here's another of those cute purses I was harping on about yesterday: the sort I can actually imagine paying good money for, and keeping for many years because they'll fit in with any bag I can imagine owning in that time.

While I was whizzing around MADE 09 - the epic craft fair that pitched up in Brighton this weekend - I was briefly diverted from my admiration of exquisite crockery by U Old Bag, a one-woman label specialising in customised vintage luggage.

I've been in the market for a wallet for so long I can't even remember the last time I bought one. Yes, I'm fussy, but something about the cost/size ratio of small leather goods pushes all my indecision buttons. Here's an important thing I'll be...

If you're still in the market for a quilted, Chanel-style handbag (and I say 'still' because the trend is surely reaching the home straight by now) then Miss Selfridge do a good line in the look with several styles on sale right now.