“Home means so much more now”
“Home means so much more now” An English man’s home is his castle, so the saying goes. In 2021 it’s probably fairer to say a British woman’s castle is also her office, hotel, restaurant, pub, gym, doctor’s surgery and somewhere around the bottom of the list, home. The four walls we chose to surround ourselves with pre-pandemic accidentally became the be all and end all of the past two years. What might once have been ‘just somewhere to sleep at night’, became somewhere to operate our entire lives from – one very under-pressure space. So perhaps it is no surprise that one of the very few retail sectors to emerge from the pandemic smiling was homewares and interiors, while traditional high-street fashion brands – including Mango, Zara and H&M –…
