Psychedelia meets folk art in Holly Fulton’s home to create a trove of curiosities
Holly Fulton once flew back from Majorca with Marlene Dietrich in her hand luggage. It was the only way of getting around Ryanair’s stringent baggage restrictions. Marlene – or, rather, a shelf painted with Marlene’s distinctive face and expressive hands – was an irresistible market find and Fulton, the Scottish-born, London-based fashion designer, was determined to get the piece home somehow. Her success in carrying Marlene back in one piece has given Fulton confidence that “anything is possible” when it comes to stowing holiday loot – though she now always pays for a check-in case for the inevitable haul of antiques, quilts and terriers made out of matchboxes.Marlene hangs on the wall of the sitting room in her top-floor flat above a quiet square in east London. “I am quite a hoarder-slash-curator of stuff,” says Fulton. She relies on her partner James, an illustrator with tidy instincts, to curb some of her magpie instincts. Anything banished from the flat finds a home elsewhere.
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