The May issue of Town & Country just came in the mail today, and I had to thumb through for a quick review of its content. A piece was highlighted in the Fashion and Style section about one of my favorite designers (and I have many!), Charlotte Moss. Call me a design groupie, but I get as much pleasure from admiring the work of others and as I do my own. I have admired Charlotte Moss since the 1980s when I first saw her home featured in House and Garden, then some good friends gave me her first book, A Passion for Detail, for my birthday. Over the years I have continued to receive her books as gifts, and even obtained her autograph at a trade show in Chicago a few years ago; it's on the inside cover of one of her books. I visited her shop in NY when she still had it a few years ago; what a delight it was. She describes her personal style as "Tailored and classic, layered with vintage pieces." I love the way she relates pattern and motif and color and texture. You almost see method to her sense of taking color and then bending it through the introduction of a palette that culminates in a beautiful relationship, yet it always occurs so naturally. She has an unabashed style for which she never apologizes!
