Happy Holiday

I hope your break is as good as Joel's who was sitting on a porch in Seattle in 2008. Mine is wonderful! I'm off to Norfolk to a little seaside village called Wells On The Sea. I love Easter break. Chocolate and lots of days off. BLISS!!! This great picture is by Nicholas Hance McElroy

Don't forget to come back on Wednesday to see my post Design Before Fashion.

John Rocha's oasis in Provence

Fashion designer John Rocha has proved that he can turn his hand to just about anything – and his own home in the South of France is evidence of that most of all. One of my favourite photographers Richard Powers went and visited John for me and snapped a few shots of his wonderful home.

Today more than ever we are wanting to find a calm oasis away from the hectic and sometimes scary pressures we face day to day. For Dublin based, fashion designer, John Rocha he has chosen a square white house he bought four years ago in St Jean-Cap-Ferrat in south-east France for his holiday home. And looking around at the spare geometry, white walls and cool limestone flooring, an atmosphere of tranquillity pervades.

"This is where I like to come and relax," says John as he walks barefoot and beaming from ear to ear.

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