Bella Freud. This is not a made up name or a character in a novel or a film but a real person who comes at the current end of an impressive lineage of nepo-babies. Her father was the vastly overrated and obnoxious painter Lucien, and so she is the great-granddaughter of Sigmund — and a fashion designer obvs, who is friends with all the influencers in London. Nick Cave only wears her suits, but if you can’t afford that how about a t-shirt with the text ‘Hello Cunty’ for eighty pounds? You do get a story to go with that, if you want a story to go with that :

WHY WE LOVE THE Hello Cunty T-Shirt

When I was 14 I came up from the country to visit my father, Lucian. He took me to a private members drinking club called The Colony Club, in Soho. We walked up the grungey staircase and into a dimly lit room where I immediately felt extremely self-conscious as the eyes of various ancient drunks swivelled in my direction. My father offered me a cigarette, a Gauloises with no filter if I remember rightly; he asked me what I wanted to drink. I decided to try a vodka and lime as it was what my best friend at school had told me she had drunk in her local pub. The founder and owner of the club was a lesbian called Muriel Belcher, famous for her scathing and brilliantly funny pronouncements. Muriel greeted her favourite Colony members with the phrase, ‘Hello Cunty’ on their arrival. She referred to everyone as She, regardless of their sex. Francis Bacon was the person she adored more than anyone and he was known as Daughter.

We recommend taking a size down for a more fitted style, or your regular size for an oversized fit.

And that is some good advice to boot.

Now Bella has a podcast. Obviously. And she has a couch. Obviously. People lie on it and she asks them : What are you wearing?

I hate the world and everything in it.
But I love it too.
You know?

 

 

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