As the story goes, Najeeba Hayat, founder and creative director of up-and-coming footwear label Liudmila, was freshly graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in government when she decided that she wasn’t destined for a life of bureaucratic “banging your head against the wall.” Pursuing a lifelong love of style, Hayat moved to Milan and took a shoemaking course at the ArsSutoria School.
I have been collecting cut glass and crystal trinket boxes for as long as I can remember, from antique shops in small seaside towns and Saturday morning auctions, and sometimes, rare charity shop finds -- French cut crystal with golden hinges and in perfect condition. Sprinkled all over the house, they are useful for holding paper clips and thumbtacks on the desk, matchboxes on coffee tables and bookcases, hairpins and lipgloss in the powder room and rings and things on the vanity. They all add instant glamour with their glittery faceted reflections, French crystal catching the light on a Monday morning. Their uses are endless. Here, we've rounded a few inspirational ways to use these beautiful pieces from a time gone by, and you can shop our brand new selection at thisisglamorous.com/shop ...
IT HAS BEEN NEARLY thirty degrees Celsius every day for the past week and the only way to keep cool is in billowy dresses or summer whites. Yesterday, it was a pair of white jeans with an off-the-shoulder top, pulled together with a favourite wicker handbag, which as just been restocked at The Shop ...
ALL OF THIS GOLDEN LIGHT is giving us a little spring fever and in anticipation of the warm summer days to come, we're rounding up our favourite things for summertime glamour, from a golden comb to shimmering body oil, and of course, the most beautiful array of DIAMONDS and gold ...
We’ve returned with another instalment of How to Style your Belgrave Crescent Pink Suede Tassel Loafers, and this time, there are silver...
It’s a hot late-summer weekend and we’ve been spending it sipping glasses of rosé on sunny terraces. And the perfect...
Read a great article yesterday about The Trickle Down Effect as it pertains to wicker and rattan (there’s a wonderful...
Fluttery dresses with the tiniest spaghetti straps, suede sandals, lovely wicker and lacy underthings — here is chic outfit inspiration for a summer (long) weekend …
Our recent Edit on How to Style Throw Cushions at Home & the Office was one of your favourites, so we thought we might follow-up with something we're even more obsessed with than designer throw cushions (if that is even possible): animal print. If you are a longtime reader at TIG, you will know of our love for these impossibly chic and worldly patterns, and especially for leopard print. Here are a few of our favourite ways to style these patterns at home-- from simple leopard throw cushions to full leopard chairs and even tiger chairs and cushions--here is a roundup of our favourite ways to work this timeless look into your home ...
It’s the long weekend and 26 °C and so far, we’ve already spent it sipping cava on a sun-speckled terrace...
