I’ve been blogging very happily for about 2 months now and out of the blue, I got my very first hostile email last night. I read it when I was quite bleary eyed because it came in my inbox at about 2am when all I could think about was crawling into bed and dying because… Continue reading The Backlash
Into the blue
I took this Bubble Cam pic in Covent Garden, right before the skies opened up a few weeks ago (don’t worry….the sun is shining these days so hopefully I will be Bubble Cam-ing more often!). I love her ballet slippers, her turquoise bag with the wooden ring shoulder straps. I love her cute haircut and… Continue reading Into the blue
The AFW Down Under
I must confess that my knowledge of Australian designers is scant, bar the ones that make it over to the four main fashion weeks. Then I started to browse the Vogue.co.uk’s coverage of Australian Fashion Week and found myself liking a lot of things. The one thing that strikes me is how wearable everything is. … Continue reading The AFW Down Under
The Last Couture House of Britain
Whenever I hear the word ‘couture’, I immediately think of Dior, Chanel, Lacroix – an age-old artform stemming from Paris. But this year marks the 60th anniversary of Hardy Amies who opened his couture house on the famed Savile Row in London in 1946 and remains the last true couture house in Britian. He was… Continue reading The Last Couture House of Britain