AND IF YOU HAVE BEEN reading for a while, you will know that every time the couture shows arrive in Paris, the...
LIGHTNESS AND OPENNESS AND AIRINESS — the Christian Dior Spring 2014 couture collection in Paris was cutwork, lace and lattices, overlays, and veils of silk and pure ethereal springtime loveliness with a modern edge, a perfectly intoxicating combination . . .
HEAVY FABRICS AND EMBELLISHMENTS characterised Giambattista Valli’s spring 2014 couture collection. His muse this year, according to Valli himself, was one...
IT MAY BE ONLY TUESDAY, but with all the craziness of the past two days, it feels like much later in the week, and so to make up for lost time...
DO YOU REMEMBER the Isabel Marant Spring/Summer 2014 show? It was all pretty pinks and ruffles and pastels, and have just come...
Belgrave Crescent Lanarkshire Table Sleeve //Isabel Marant For H&M // H&M Triangle Bra & Lace Briefs // Black Verdugo Jegging |...
CAME ACROSS this editorial in Harper’s Bazaar quite a while ago, shot by Victor Demarchelier, and can never resist warm winter...
TWO LOVELY THINGS : a glimpse at Karl Lagerfeld’s romantic Paris apartment dining table, dressed in antique 19th-century lace, from...
subscription to Australia’s belle magazine // gold & nappa leather driving gloves // Estee Lauder pure color nail lacquer french uudes...
A LITTLE PLAY with juxtapositions, of rock ‘n refined and leather & lace . . . [images : myra madeleine //...
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?“
THERE IS TWEED EVERYWHERE — Harris Tweed on a notebook, wool tartan on chinoiserie chairs, and in the closet,...
THE LEAVES HAVE ALL turned golden and billowed off the trees, falling, falling and there is an undeniable crispness in the morning air, and not evening goes by without thought of a fire or candles lit, and there’s just something a little romantic and cosy about the days now.
IT SEEMS AS IF THE WEEKEND has just ended, and yet, somehow, have arrived at Wednesday already. Either we’re working...
LOVER THE LABEL has been mentioned here a few times before, for they create the most astonishingly lovely white [&...