When travelling to far and fabulous places, it is always a bit of game changer to have some handy tips at hand from those best friends in the know who always seem to be able to unearth the most incredible places. At KOTUR, we like to pick the brains of some particularly fabulous women before …

Kate Crofton Atkins, founder of Cochine, a range of luxury home fragrances inspired by Saigon has lived abroad for almost a decade. With a business based partly in Vietnam, she is our go to person for top tips on South East Asia. Here, she shares her favorite finds. Saigon Eat Whenever I go to Saigon …

Acting on the assumption that we should give to others what we’d like to receive ourselves, I’ll be buying books for my friends and loved ones as holiday presents this year. A coffee table book that is as lovely to look at as it is interesting to read is always a failsafe present, and what …

My good friend Blue Carreon’s book Conversations: Up Close and Personal with Icons of Fashion, Interior Design and Art, has just been published. A bit of a polymath himself, Blue is a style writer, interior designer, boutique owner and blogger, and his series of interviews that featured initially in the Huffington Post and form the …

Love this from VanityFair.com. Happy Thanksgiving.. Chinese Style Photograph by Justin Bishop. Food styled by Christopher Barsh. If there’s anything that will save mankind from the dry dreariness that is Thanksgiving turkey, it might just be chef Joe Ng’s Peking turkey at RedFarm, purveyor of our favorite Chinese food in New York. Slather a pancake …

It takes a very special sort of interior designer to develop such a signature approach to his craft that he becomes synonymous not just with a particular genre of interiors, but more specifically with an actual material. Step forward Mario Buatta, aka The Prince of Chintz.  One of America’s most well known interior designers, Buatta …

This is the news I awoke to- @voguemagazine full page spread! #StealoftheMonth #getsmartbag #Kotur! …I have to sit down… Thank you #Vogue @tabithasimmons @akm36 #VogueMagazine December issue #grateful

Jennifer was our perfect choice for Eat Shop Play – Along with her jewelry collection. Jennifer is known for her incredible style, and for the way she creatively incorporates couture with other elements: a family heirloom or  a piece found at an exotic bazaar, Jennifer writes her own script, and her style reflects her curiosity …

Andrea Robinson is known to many for her many accomplishments: Author of Toss the Gloss, Beauty Industry Executive to companies such as Revlon, Estee Lauder and Ralph Lauren, former Vogue editor, and entrepreneur of soon-to-be-launched cosmetic brand “Mrs. Robinson”. But for me, I would add Mentor and Fairy Godmother to both my sister, and me. …

This year, Cleopatra,  the iconic film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, celebrates it’s 50th year anniversary and a much anticipated re-release. For those of us who witnessed the film during it’s first and second go around, it was a transformative experience, and for me, one that contributed to my future life in design… From the …