Bohemian Chic: Gift Ideas Inspired By Patti Smith

By Sarah Halliwell December 5 2025

Is Patti Smith your Christmas muse?

We’ve long admired the style and substance of American writer, singer and icon Patti Smith. She played Dublin recently, celebrating 50 years of her seminal album, Horses, and her latest memoir, Bread of Angels, is essential reading. Guided by her religious coffee ritual (this is a woman who wrote: “I could drink 14 cups without compromising my sleep”), we feel a Cloudpicker subscription is an essential gift – and one that lasts into the new year. We’re also inspired by her penchant for floorgrazing, ink-black coats (The Landskein does the best one), her minimalist style (jeans, T-shirt, heavy leather boots), her mastery of packing (“I always travel light”, she says; read The M Train for her lists) – and her constant writing in notebooks. @sarahhalliwellbeauty