Beauty and the Beast
“It’s dark. I am naked, dripping in hot oil. Heavy breathing and panting fills the basement as hands move quickly up my slippery thighs.” A candid insight in to the wonderful world of spa reviewing…
Browsing: The Lifestyle
The Lady Smokes
For most of last year, and some of this, I made frequent visits to Manchester.…
Happy (expensive) Halloween: Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Minaudière for Louis Vuitton
Yes folks, that wonderful time of the year is approaching again – the time where…
Short Fiction: Henry Bird
“Henry Bird stood on the front step of his house. His hand still held the key in the lock of the front door. He always shut the door with the key, turning it in the lock to avoid that bang which set his teeth on edge.”
Riva 63′ Virtus: A Lesson in Sleek Italian Style
I’m thirteen-years-old again, an eager skipper to my father’s captain aboard his beloved Bird Bath,…
Book Review: Classic Hollywood Style by Caroline Young
Behind every highly stylised look we see on the cinema screen, is a costume designer…
Science Meets Art & Fashion: Nick Veasey Collaborates With COLLECTIVE
“Integral beauty adds intrigue to the familiar” – Nick Veasey. British photographer, Nick Veasey produces images of…
Wellies, Williamson and Havaianas
Designer Matthew Williamson has collaborated with my favourite flip flop brand, Havaianas, to create a…
Baryshnikov Swaps Ballet For Fashion Design In Collaboration With Citizens of Humanity
Most of you will probably remember Mikhail Baryshnikov as Carrie’s love interest, Alexandr Petrovsky, in Sex…
Hairs and Graces: Vidal Sassoon
The ‘Vidal Sassoon: Outtakes’ exhibition at Somerset House pays tribute to the most influential British hairdresser of all time, described as a ‘rock star, an artist and a craftsman’.
The Pond
“Thursday last, at the pond, early morning, at about a quarter to eight. Sun grins down on me, the first sunny day in a long time. A nascent but confident Sun, full of vitality and young strength.”
London Fashion Week SS13 Round-Up
“London Fashion Week is over for another season, and as we all adjust to walking at an average pace…here is my retrospective of the week where all normal life stops, and fashion begins.”