WE ALL KNOW the iconic opening scene of the 1963 film Charade: Audrey Hepburn looking devastatingly chic in a chocolate brown Givenchy coat and oversized sunglasses, sipping coffee on a sunny terrace in the French ski resort of Megève.
At the Vatican Museums, the nightly ritual of the keys begins in Room 49A, a tight, windowless chamber, generally referred to as il bunker, which I entered one evening last November from a grassy courtyard as rain began to fall...
Balmoral Castle, in the Scottish Highlands, was Queen Elizabeth’s preferred resort among her several castles and palaces, and in the opening pages of “Spare” (Random House), the much anticipated, luridly leaked, and compellingly artful autobiography of Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, its environs are intimately described.
A collection of your top favourite articles of the past year here at This Is Glamorous, from Cy Twombly's stunning home in Rome to rarely seen photos of Princess Diana; Rosehill Cottage, the film set that was created for the Christmas movie, The Holiday; mother-daughter Instagram fashion influencers Susi Rejano & Carla Hinojosa, and more ...
ON FRIDAY, March 31, 2022, French fashion & portrait photographer Patrick Demarchelier passed away in St. Barths of cancer. He was 78. Patrick Demarchelier was born in 1943 in Le Havre, a major port in northern France's Normandy region. As the story goes, he got his start in photography when his stepfather gave him his first Kodak camera on his 17th birthday. He became enchanted with photography, taking pictures of friends and weddings and learning how to retouch negatives and develop film
IT'S BEEN A WHILE since we've covered the Met Gala—2014, in fact—(here and here), and once again in 2018. Of course, it was cancelled last year due to the pandemic, but this year, it was brought back and there was so much social media coverage of it, it's clear that everyone is relieved to have some happy distraction to report on for a change ...
Breezy white dresses will be on every shopping list this month, as many fashion défilés have showed us many ways to wear this summer staple, and many brands have at least one style of white dress on their best sellers lists—prairie dresses, crochet, embroidered, and slip.
In the fashion Editorial HAILEY B., Hailey Bieber channels Princess Diana's sporty chic style--oversized sweatshirts with cycling shorts, socks and trainers, sweatshirts with blazers, bluejeans and cowboy boots, sometimes a baseball cap, but always with devastating style...
It’s the weekend! and here are ten things that have been inspiring us lately, from sunglasses and rumpled trenches on...
LORD SNOWDON, renown English photographer, filmmaker and ex-husband of Princess Margaret, passed away at his home in Kensington, London on January 13, 2017. He was 86.
On this day in 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales passed away unexpectedly following a horrific car crash in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. She was only 36 years of age. To commemorate the 19th anniversary of her death, we’ve collected a few favourite photographs . . .
The impossibly glamorous Festival de Cannes has just finished its 2016 edition, and we saw moments that will undoubtedly enter fashion history—cue Blake Lively’s style for the entire festival, Kristen Stewart’s rock-chic Chanel ensembles, or Amal Clooney’s princess moment in a cornflower yellow Atelier Versace dress. However, here at TIG, we love to reminisce on old Hollywood fashion icon...
PARIS AND PEONIES and Princess Diana, tiaras and winter swans and coffee and Carrara are a few of the magical...
IT WAS ON THE NEWS this week that previously unseen photographs — candid ones — from Princess Diana’s wedding to Prince Charles have recently emerged. These “outtakes” were taken by Lord Patrick Lichfield, a photographer and distant family relative. Charles and Diana were wed at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London on July 29, 1981; these photos offer a rare glimpse at the reception, held at Buckingham Palace. The photos will be auctioned by RR Auction house on September 24.