Editor’s letter
Regular readers of this column may remember my resolution to use the word ‘fresh’ as a guiding principle for this coming year. I hope you will see its influence in the springlike cover of our March fashionand-film issue, starring the exciting (fresh!) talent that is Maisie Williams.
We photographed the actress to mark her latest leading role as Catherine Dior in the forthcoming TV drama series The New Look; in a fascinating interview, she talks to Justine Picardie about the sacrifices – both mental and physical – the demanding part entailed. Meanwhile on page 123, other leading lights of the British film industry, from the multifaceted Romola Garai to the director Raine Allen-Miller and Bafta’s CEO Jane Millichip, come together in a spectacular celebratory portfolio.
Fresh fashion inspiration, meanwhile, is provided from page 158, where we offer a new take on modern workwear, and a siren song to scarlet that forms a striking contrast to ‘Enchanted kingdom’, a chromatic exploration of gentle English eccentricity. And colour is similarly high on the priority list for Charlotte Cosby, the creative director at the iconic paint company Farrow & Ball, who shows us around her chic family home in our Living section, from page 137.
But ‘fresh’ also epitomises that urge to escape, to find a new way of living, that we all feel from time to time. Personally, I am never happier than when dipping a toe (sometimes literally) into a more rural, self-sufficient way of life – whether that entails a chilly river plunge, a weekend’s lambingonafriend’sfarmorsimplyplucking some home-grown salad leaves for lunch. Of
