In Love with a Magazine

Bloomsbury purse from the Burberry Autumn/Winter 2014 Collection

Is it crazy to be in love with a magazine? If so, then call me crazy. I have put this particular one with a special stash of magazines I keep in my study for inspiration. The magazine in question is the July issue of "British Harper's Bazaar" with Emily Blunt on the cover. Have you seen it? As the editor-in-chief Justine Picardie writes, this issue is a "heartfelt celebration of British fashion this month -- along with everything else we love about our country." It is an Anglophile's dream. It may still be available at your news stand, though not for much longer since the August issue is due any day. Here are a few of the things that caught my eye and are making me swoon --

The Bloomsbury purse from the Burberry Fall/Winter 2014 collection (see photo above) 

I wrote about this collection here. Christopher Bailey took his inspiration from British artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's country home Charleston. Burberry has become a patron of the Charleston Trust which supports the maintenance and restoration of this Bloomsbury home and garden. Look at the way this purse is displayed against a backdrop of Bloomsbury-inspired imagery. Swoon-worthy!

The perfect garden hat from Mulberry

Everything you need for afternoon tea

A house in the Cotswolds that belonged to John Singer Sargent

 Emily Blunt, the quintessential English rose

The Virginia Woolf exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

A story about the 18th-century slave's daughter at the center of the film "Belle"

The iconic London hotel, Claridge's

I hope you can find this issue. It is the perfect place to escape on a lazy summer afternoon!