Margot Asquith

Paul Poiret and the fickleness of fashion

1 November 2025 9:00 am

The master couturier, once celebrated by le tout Paris, found himself by the 1920s debt-ridden and eclipsed by the likes of Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli

Margot dressed as an oriental snake charmer for a fancy dress ball at Devonshire House in 1897

Skirmishes on the home front

29 November 2014 9:00 am

You might be forgiven for thinking that there is no need for yet another book about Margot Asquith. Her War…

Playing fast and loose

18 January 2014 9:00 am

Simon Blow recalls the wealth, recklessness and beauty of his family’s better days