Love, Holts

Photos courtesy Holt Renfrew

"He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself."

I adore F.Scott Fitzgerald's way with words, but more than anything, I love how he set The Great Gatsby in impossibly fashionable 1920's East Egg.  Design houses have been getting lots of mileage from the novel with gold, fringe and deco accents taking centre stage everywhere from Gucci to Ralph Lauren for the past few seasons.  With the much-anticipated Gatsby blockbuster set to hit the big screen in May (check out the trailer below), seems like Holts still hasn't tired of the jazz age either, though I expect our collective obsession with Downton Abbey has added some fuel to the flapper fire. Have you checked out Holt Renfrew's super pretty Valentine's windows yet?  I love my job but wouldn't you just love to be a Holts window dresser for a day? Sigh...