Here’s my piece on the blockbuster Bowie exhibit at the V&A (their fastest selling event ever)
and then beards… (of the hairy variety..)
namaste and happy sunday x
Bowie is back and beards never went away…
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How to smell expensive…wear flat shoes..and Anya Hindmarch
Today in Style : Nichely fragrant…I know that’s not a word.. but for those of you who have a subscription, here’s my piece on uber-lux perfumes….
In the Wall St Journal… flat shoes…
and the very lovely, talented Anya Hindmarch
Red carpets….
Sweets, wearing festive black and panic gifting…
Sunday Times Style section
Just to make you feel better about eating lots of sugar over the next few days here’s my piece on sweets which I wrote for Style, The Sunday Times.
Not sure all of you will be able to read it unless you have a subscription… but still, just know that if this your idea of heaven……..
Sweetie, darling.. ?The Sunday Times
………you are not alone.
Wear black tomorrow – here’s why…..
And, just in case you have any last minute gifts to buy…..here are my last words on the subject See below for my favourite panic purchase..
Aspinal Hip Flask
HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND NAMASTE..XXX
Catch Up…
When your gran calls to tell you that she hasn’t ‘had a blog from you in a while dear’, then you know you have been truly slack. And so, for my gran (and anyone else who is interested) here’s a smattering of my recent pieces, including: how to dress like you know who…
Why fashion photography is the new collectible.…
Photographer：Tim Walker Vogue-UK-July-2005-LilyTake (Photo credit: ciaochanchou)
The fabulous and truly unique Donna Karan
And…. a piece on Christopher Bailey‘s new ‘shop’ for one of my favourite mags, Architectural Digest
Namaste gran…xx
Chanel’s Jasmine harvest in Grasse… (in pictures and mercifully few words)
Chanel grows its own Jasmine in Grasse for No5….
The farm is owned and run by the fabulous Joseph Mul (above) and his family and harvested by a loyal team of pickers…
When at Chanel’s Jasmine harvest naturally one wears.. Chanel wellies…
pickers at the weigh in–Jasmine flowers overnight and can only be picked during the morning..
the flowers are loaded into trays and the pickers load their baskets into the back of their van and head for their lunch…meanwhile the harvest heads for the processing plant…
where it goes through multifarious processes…. which ultimately create an absolute- the liquid used in the No5 fragrance formula… Other highlights of the day included… the Chanel PRs who naturally.. wore great accessories…
and the Tuberose (which I had never seen growing in fields before). Chanel also grows its own roses for No5 at the Mul’s farm….
namaste…xxx
Smasual….
my column in today’s WSJ: The holy grail of SmartCasual or smasual….
as evidenced by……The Kennedys – then
and….then..
and inevitably.. The French..
Ines courtesy of her book Parisian Chic
of course, men do it better than women…. (see Ryan Gosling)
and they always have….see Pablo Picasso – the master..
Namaste x
