Jenny Beavan photographed for The Telegraph at her home in south London earlier this month - Rii Schroer Just before I knock on the door of the Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan’s south ...

Most clothes don’t wear out—they’re washed to death. The way you do laundry matters more than how often you shop, because even high-quality fabrics can fall apart fast if you’re washing them wrong.

Clothes pinned to a clothesline flapping in the breeze and drying in the sunshine is a visual that brings me back to my childhood. And oh, that amazing smell of line-dried clean sheets. Know what I ...