Things are beginning to feel festive around here, and few things bring memories of past Christmases flooding back more than...
HELLO AGAIN and Happy New Year! How were the holidays? Hope you had a wonderful time! As you know, we took some time off and it was amazing. So relaxing and nice to actually not work for a bit. (Novel idea, I know.) We even took a break from the newsletter, which we plan on resuming at this end of this week, since there were so many new subscribers while we were away.
THIS INSTALMENT OF 10 IMAGES features the wonderfully bright and happiness-inducing photos of @alicedetogni. Her use of colour is inspired: from the purple umbrellas of San Fruttuoso, Liguria, Italy to the macarons at Ladurée; to picnics in orange gingham sundresses to fields of wildflowers, it's impossible to look at this interior and graphic designer's feed without feeling that the world is a wonderful place ...
THIS COLLECTION OF IMAGES began a million years ago, before Victoria‘s beautiful collection of New York Fashion Week street style...
In 2012, when Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum released “Magic Mike,” a moist, underlit caper about male entertainers at a Tampa strip club, they thought they were making an indie. Instead, the film grossed a hundred and sixty-seven million dollars, spawning an international franchise.
. . . january is a month for clean slates and fresh starts, and no matter cliché, as it...
No winter evening’s rendezvous on the Champs-Elysées, with its glittering shoppes and glistening holiday lights is complete without a stop...
AND IN ALL THE EXCITEMENT had barely realised that November had slipped into a new month, and hadn’t the chance to...
PARIS AND PEONIES and Princess Diana, tiaras and winter swans and coffee and Carrara are a few of the magical...
THE APPEAL OF ITALY IS TIMELESS and has endured through the ages, whether it is due to iconic architecture like the...
. . . and just when it seems as if winter will last forever, the quiet realization that the month...
Animal print has been a part of fashion and décor for many years: well-travelled, worldly and exotic, it was a symbol of wealth and status. Fabrics with patterns and colours imitating the coats of animals were made fashionable as early as the eighteenth century, and it is thought that animal print became popular in the United States in the late 1960’s, during the Bohemian movement.
An alabaster, wintry frost hardly seems like the warmest of welcomes, but the magic of the icy snow that glistens...








