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etsy style inspiration: peach bellini
Morning! A selection of treasures from Etsy, inspired by the retro indulgence that is a peach bellini (part sparkling wine, part peach syrup). Think crisp whites and corals on tanned skin, sharpened by a touch of navy. Chic ballet flats on timeworn footpaths threading through rolling beachside streets; jewelled sandals and straw hats al fresco […]
(a very retro) Blake Lively for Glamour magazine
June 9, 2011
I love Blake Lively’s unabashedly flamboyant, joyful style; she has an obvious love for dressing up which is contagious to anyone watching. This editorial for the July 2011 issue of US Glamour plays to Ms. Lively’s love of colour and sense of playfulness yet it offers a different side to her look via a gorgeous […]
Style Inspiration: (grey) tonal details
May 30, 2011
Grey can be a tricky colour to wear. It can make fair or cool skin tones look ashy. It can clash with warm skin tones. It can look boring, old-fashioned, run of the mill. Unless of course the grey is encapsulated within a beautiful fabric, interesting texture, quality tailoring or, in the case of this […]
Style inspiration: autumnal colours, vintage detail & the new hemline
February 28, 2011
What a beautiful image: I love the sumptuous ginger chestnut hair, the loose, long, intricate folds and detail of the dress and the warm chocolate loafers. It’s a beautiful Autumnal look: college-style masculine meets fairytale feminine. Note the straps revealing a white slip underneath: older and much wiser women in my family have always insisted […]
I like peeking inside other people’s wardrobes
January 24, 2011
Most of us like to peek inside the handbags, bathroom cabinets or wardrobes of other people. I confess I’ve had such a predilection since I was little: as a seven year-old with two elder sisters I loved nothing more than to poke through their beauty bags and, when they grew up and moved out of […]
New York City Style: Rag & Bone
September 10, 2010
Bien sur I partook in some serious fashion therapy while in New York, and I will post some more images soon (I promise!) of my treasures. One label I was particularly taken with was New York’s own Rag & Bone. This sort of surprised me because my style tends to be classic feminine and delicate […]
Vintage Tennis Style
May 21, 2010
I spied these wonderful vintagey/wedding/tennis photographs from A Cup of Jo and just had to share them because they tick some of my favourite aesthetic boxes: Tennis (preferably on an old-school estate, a la Woody Allen’s Match Point) Vintage weddings Weddings full stop (I am a romantic after all) Sensitive, detailed photography I love the […]
Style Alert: Pastel Blazers
April 17, 2010
Blazers have been so popular in recent seasons that one could be forgiven for thinking their reign must soon be approaching a royal death – that is, spotted only on the torsos of fashion-latent teens and wannabes while the smarter fashion set move onto cooler, more obscure means of staying chic in chilly air. I’ve […]
July 17, 2012
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