TALES FROM BELLA'S WORLD...

"Anna Morrissey is an artist, and the publisher and editor of Tummy Ache, a bi-annual magazine using fashion and art to encourage conversations about mental health. She is a young person who is...

I saw Charlie Gosling's work when he exhibited at the first Incubator show. Incubator is a gallery founded and curated by Angelica Jopling to show the work of new young artists. I bought...

When I was a teenager growing up in East Sussex, going to a clothes shop was like going to a nightclub. By 'shop' I mean boutique - though that word has always seemed...

I remember where I was in the room when I first met Tilda Swinton. I was kneeling on the floor of my sitting room. The carpet was pale grey and the only furniture...

I got back from Paris a few days ago after the kind of two day fashion trip that people assume designers always have, but in fact rarely do. This Paris experience was thanks to the generous...

A friend was telling me about her first attempt to get off hard drugs in the late 70’s - before Rehab as we now know it. This place was an addiction unit in a Victorian...

Browsing through my Instagram a few months ago, I saw a message from a young woman saying she had found some photos of my mother, taken by her father in the 60’s. I...

This picture was taken when I was 15. It sits propped against the wall on a corduroy covered bench at the end of my kitchen, alongside other stuff including a photo of me...

I’m staying with my sister Esther in Suffolk. She has a photo of our mum sellotaped to a cupboard door and I was struck by how alike we look. My mum was hard...

My mother was scornful of Mother’s Day. I was ashamed that I secretly liked the idea of it but I kept my feelings hidden. Our family attitude was born out of being untraditional:...

‘Do you remember when we lived at The Old Laundry and we were allowed half a Redoxon tablet when we were off school sick?’ I was talking to my sister Esther about a...

There is a huge Leigh Bowery exhibition just opened at Tate Modern. It is hard for anyone to capture the brilliance and originality of Leigh – such was his uncategorizable and unquantifiable talent,...

I first met Marianne Faithful when I was 20. I was invited with two friends to a dinner party on a Chelsea Embankment houseboat where she was the honoured guest. I don’t remember...