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" It doesn&amp;#039;t get much more English than this. Rain is drizzling, the bells of Westminster Abbey are ringing, and, in an Edwardian apartment building a few blocks from Buckingham Palace, Charlotte Stockdale, half of the impossibly cool London power couple that also includes mega-designer Marc Newson (whose supersleek sensibility has been applied to everything from airport lounges to Pentax cameras), is holding a traditional Sunday lunch.  Related: Tour Candela Designer Gabriela Perezutti Hearst&amp;#039;s Gorgeous Home in Punta del Este  On this day, the 43-year-old stylist, who, in addition to being named style editor of posh English fragrance house Jo Malone London two years ago, consults for Karl Lagerfeld and Peter Pilotto and serves as fashion director for art magazine Garage, is every inch the paradigm of taste one would expect. Their flat, an airy triplex inside a converted post office, is quintessential Newson: There&amp;#039;s a wall covered in Nova Scotia rocks that looks like something out of a futuristic Swiss chalet, and a mint-green-lacquered open kitchen with nary a sharp edge. Today, Stockdale&amp;#039;s own look is that of off-duty fashion arbiter: an oversize Sacai sweater thrown over Stella McCartney blue paisley silk pajama pants. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s great, isn&amp;#039;t it?&amp;quot; she says, stroking the ample folds of the drawstring pants. &amp;quot;You can eat a lot!&amp;quot;  Related: Home Organizing Ideas to Steal From Hilary Swank, Reese Witherspoon and Kerri Russell The guest list is a who&amp;#039;s who of London&amp;#039;s style set: model Jodie Kidd, with two-year-old daughter Indio; footwear phenom Nicholas Kirkwood; aristocrat-about-town Lady Sophia Hesketh; fellow Lagerfeld muse Tallulah Harlech; and Stockdale&amp;#039;s best friend of 20 years, also an \u00FCber-stylist, Pop magazine editor Katie Grand. Stockdale has wisely outsourced the task of cooking. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not very good at it,&amp;quot; she admits in her velvety accent. &amp;quot;I tend to walk off and leave things.&amp;quot; She&amp;#039;s left today&amp;#039;s menu traditional\u2014roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, purple cauliflower, and roasted potatoes\u2014to restaurateur David Waddington of Bistrotheque, an East London fashion-crowd favorite. The occasion: Just Like Sunday, her new candle line for Jo Malone London. The candles flickering on the dining table are inspired by elements of Stockdale&amp;#039;s own to-the-manor-born childhood at her parents&amp;#039; country house, Hoddington\u2014from her mother&amp;#039;s conservatory-grown tomatoes to her grandmother&amp;#039;s Alice in Wonderland\u2013esque high teas. &amp;quot;If it was wintry, we&amp;#039;d close the curtains and watch old movies,&amp;quot; she recalls. &amp;quot;I thought I was going to marry John Wayne.&amp;quot; In reality, she ended up marrying the Australian-born Newson in 2008. (The couple have two daughters, Imogen, six, and Lucienne, two, who sat at a kids&amp;#039; table for the fete, along with Kidd&amp;#039;s daughter.) And though Newson has transformed much of the flat they share into a minimalist&amp;#039;s paradise, Stockdale has managed to hold on to part of her past in the form of a tucked-away room\u2014known as Charlotte&amp;#039;s library\u2014outfitted with rich mahogany paneling, an heirloom zebra-skin rug, and back issues of Country Life magazine. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s my, I don&amp;#039;t know, seventh great-grandmother or something,&amp;quot; Stockdale says, pointing to a luminous eighteenth-century portrait of a lady in blue. &amp;quot;Grand!&amp;quot; Stockdale sings out, heralding the arrival of her first guest. They are soon joined by Kirkwood and Hesketh, the latter arriving in a cult Bella Freud sweater that reads &amp;quot;Godard is Dog.&amp;quot; The party in swing, cater-waiters serve champagne and traditional English &amp;quot;bullshots&amp;quot;\u2014a mix of beef consomm\u00E9 and vodka not for the faint of heart or stomach. Between shots, Grand admits she isn&amp;#039;t usually much of a Sunday-lunch person, but she&amp;#039;s made an exception for the Stockdale version. &amp;quot;She always believes in a lot of alcohol,&amp;quot; Grand says, &amp;quot;which is basically all you need.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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