My personal style signifier
is a clean and tailored silhouette – my desert-island choices would be jeans and jackets. I mean, listen, I love shirts, I’ve got a big sweater collection too, but I’m probably the only person in the free world who actually liked their school blazer. It’s the versatility of a jacket that I love – you can dress things up or make them more relaxed. Saint Laurent does them in a style I love – blazer-y, fitted, not too long, not too short.
This ’80s repousse Cavachon ruby and pavé diamond cocktail ring was a recent gift from Loehnis’s husband © Jack JohnstoneThe best book I’ve read in the past yeara long time ago. It’s an amazing study of end-of-life care. Gawande is a surgeon who, when his father was diagnosed with a terminal illness, realised that modern medicine hasn’t had frank discussions about death. Doctors aren’t trained to teach people how to die.
was an ’80s Repossi cocktail ring from my husband. It’s a cabochon ruby and pavé diamond. He got the idea from an Instagram account I follow by a jewellery collective,. I remember loving them in the ’90s and then my son, who is really into music, was playing something and I went on a time-travel trip.is Pantelleria, where we have rented a house in summer for the past 16 or so years. This is going to sound a bit new age-y but there’s an energy to the island that I felt on our first visit.
almond milk, probiotics and bottarga. Champagne – on a good day it’s a Ruinart, a nice Blanc de Blancs. There’ll always be a number of things pickling, garlic or cucumber – my husband’s a good cook and he’s a big fermentation advocate. There’ll be homemade chilli sauce or a great brand I just found in California called