Welcome to TGP Tidbits where we round up the happenings and our musings of the design industry each week. This week we take a look at Nina Campbell’s Latest Collection, The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon, and Remembering Mathilde Favier. Written by Natalie Aldridge.
Nina Campbell’s Latest Collection
Few names are more synonymous with quintessential English decorating than the legendary Nina Campbell. For more than five decades, her colorful and wonderfully comfortable interiors have embodied that distinctly English tradition of rooms that feel layered, collected, and somehow relaxed.
This September, Nina Campbell will launch a new collection of fabrics and wallpapers for Osborne & Little, aptly titled The Interior Designer’s Collection. Filled with charming florals, rich color, and beautifully considered patterns, the collection draws on the unmistakable decorative vocabulary that has made Nina one of the most beloved names in interior design.
Classic, joyful, and just a little bit unexpected, the collection is filled with the sorts of patterns that will become mainstays. The Interior Designer’s Collection will be available through Osborne & Little beginning September 2nd.
The full collection will be available to view here!
The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon
At The Glam Pad, we celebrate craftsmanship, legacy, and the classics. Those rare things, whether a beautiful fabric, a timeless dress, or a perfectly crafted piece of furniture, that somehow manage to transcend generations without ever losing their relevance are what we cherish most. This fall, two great British institutions come together to celebrate just that, as the Victoria and Albert Museum and Burberry open The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon, marking the legendary British fashion house’s 170th anniversary.
Opening September 21st in the V&A’s rarely seen Prince Consort Gallery, the exhibition traces the history of the trench from Thomas Burberry’s invention of cotton gabardine in 1879 and its practical beginnings in military and protective outerwear to its place today as one of fashion’s most enduring icons. Along the way, the exhibition showcases the craftsmanship behind the classic, from its hand-finished collar and iconic check lining. Rare pieces from the Burberry Archive and V&A collection will be featured with 19 runway looks illustrating how generations of designers have continued to reinterpret the coat.
Perhaps what we love most about this exhibition is the reminder that a true classic does not need reinventing so much as it needs preserving, appreciating, and an occasional look with fresh eyes. Beautiful materials, thoughtful details, and superb craftsmanship never really go out of style, whether we are talking about a perfectly tailored trench coat or a beautifully decorated room.
The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon will be on view at the V&A South Kensington from September 21, 2026 through January 3, 2027. V&A exhibition tickets can sell out fas! Make sure to plan your visit here!
Remembering Mathilde Favier
We were deeply saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Mathilde Favier, the beloved longtime Director of Public Relations at Dior and one of Paris’s most wonderfully stylish and iconic figures. For more than a decade at the legendary fashion house, Mathilde was a familiar and much-loved presence within the fashion industry, known as much for her warmth, wit, smile, and infectious joie de vivre as for her extraordinary sense of style.
Beyond the world of fashion, Mathilde had a true gift for living beautifully. Her wonderfully layered Paris apartment, love of flowers, entertaining, collecting, and the people and places that made her city special were captured in her 2024 book, Living Beautifully in Paris. She represented a kind of effortless Parisian elegance that cannot really be taught, one that was deeply personal, a little eccentric, and always full of life. She seemed to move through the world with a smile on her face and a genuine joy for life and those around her.
Mathilde passed away on August 17 alongside her partner, French film producer Nicolas Altmayer, in a tragic accident. Our hearts go out to her children, family, friends, and the many people whose lives she touched. The worlds of fashion and design have lost a truly singular and joyful presence.
Read our favorite articles of the week!
My Year of Lunching in Britain’s Stately Homes written by Eleanor Doughty for House & Garden UK.
Designer Melanie Millner Renovates a Cozy 1880s Maine Cottage for Her Family written by Sophie Donelson for Frederic.
Shop this week’s inspired finds!
x Natalie
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