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Olympia Le-Tan leaves her eponymous label

Fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan is parting ways with her namesake brand. She announced the decision on her Instagram profile. “I first started this journey 20 years ago at my mother’s kitchen table with my own two hands, a needle and thread, and the naïve little idea of creating a world for women, combining my love of craft, books, fantasy sex...

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Judging a book by its cover

You can't judge by its cover, however designer Olympia Le-Tan makes extraordinary literary clutch bags in the shapes of first edition novels, so perhaps you can. As her father was an avid book collector, Olympia Le-Tan grew up in a house where the walls were covered in beautiful books, sparking off her own passion to collect old novels herself....