DINNER FOR 1 - LOTTA AT HOME

DINNER FOR 1
LOTTA AT HOME

Dining for one doesn’t always require a reservation.

 Sometimes the most precise date happens at home — where objects replace witnesses, where clothes wait patiently to be chosen, where time bends to your own rhythm.

For this chapter of THE FLAMEL, Lotta hosts herself.
 A domestic setting becomes a stage for appetite, humour, memory, and style. Shoes lean against walls like thoughts. Bags rest where conversations usually happen. Everything is intentional. Everything is hers. Because dining alone is about the authorship.
 And home is where that authorship feels most natural.

JACQUEMUS

TEXTURE AND CONTRAST

Lotta’s first thoughts find their visual echo in Jacquemus — a language built on shape, texture, and attitude. For holiday dressing, Lotta gravitates toward textures and layers.

 In the Nordics, warmth isn’t optional — it’s a design problem to be solved creatively. Knits meet sequins. Softness collides with shine. Contrast becomes comfort.
Her holiday style icon is unexpected but precise: Jim Carrey as the Grinch.
 Not for the clothes — though the lederhosen-and-sweater combination lingers — but for the confidence. “It’s simply iconic to be that confident,” she says. Confidence worn without apology, even in adversity.

In this mood live Les Bottes Tourni boots, Le Bisou Perle shoulder bag, and Le Calisso round shoulder bag — pieces that don’t whisper, but hold their ground. At home, they feel less like accessories and more like companions. Quietly bold. Unafraid of contrast.

SHOP TAMA TOBY

TAMA TOBY: SUN AND THE CITY

For this chapter, TAMA TOBY — with its founder Tamara Toby — enters the story not as a brand, but as an origin. Emotional. Geographic. Instinctive.
Barcelona is not a setting; it’s a pulse.
 “I’ve tried to live almost everywhere,” she says, “and the universe always led me back here.”
 Her mind asks for sunlight. Her body answers to the ocean. Her nature needs the tension between movement and ease. Barcelona feels to her like a village dressed as a city — intimate, porous, human. The only place where TAMA TOBY could have come into being.
The brand grows from the Spanish artisanal world, not as a reference but as a foundation.

 Made in Spain is not a stamp — it’s the first sentence. Shoes shaped locally, by hands she knows, trusts, and evolves with. Quality not pursued as status, but held as responsibility. Craft not as nostalgia, but as continuity. When the conversation turns to the holidays, her answer arrives without hesitation: the RIRI silver mule. Worn like a second skin, like gloves for the feet — impossible to abandon. At home, with a greyish pyjama set. Or outside, paired with black leather in what she calls, unapologetically, her killer look. Comfort and authority sharing the same step.
She doesn’t idealise the season.
 The holidays can be loud, demanding, too full. But with time, she’s learned to slow the rhythm — to soften into it, to catch the small, almost hidden magic beneath the surface noise.
And if one TAMA TOBY creation were destined for cinema?
 There is no doubt.
 Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. The Sassy Mule, in yellow snake.
 Not a reference — a prophecy. Iconic by nature. Film already stitched into leather.
Within THE FLAMEL’s Dinner for 1, TAMA TOBY becomes a quiet certainty: shoes are never just the end of a look. They are maps — carrying place, obsession, humour, and the self-assured grace of walking alone exactly where you belong.

SHOP LOTTA'S SELECTION

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

HUMOUR AND GREATNESS

The final layer belongs to Vivienne Westwood — and to the second half of Lotta’s thoughts.
Her essential holiday accessory?
 Boots. Boots. Boots.
 They protect you from the snow, look bad ass, and work with absolutely everything life demands of you. Practicality, elevated to attitude.

What makes Lotta the perfect dinner date for herself is not discipline — it’s the feeling of greatness that comes from spending quality time alone. Not as a challenge, but as a reward.
And her favourite thing about dining by herself?
 Her sense of humour.
 “If you can’t laugh at yourself or make yourself laugh, is life even worth living?”
That spirit lives in the Savage leather heels, the Neysa chain necklace, and the Mini Yasmine handbag. Objects that carry rebellion lightly. That understand fashion not as seriousness, but as intelligence with wit.