A COCKTAIL OF THINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN ON MY MIND THIS WEEK MONTH.Springtime postcards from Paris (1.) My friend Adam climbed to the top of the Pompidou centre one evening to take this snap. I said it ...
" I dont like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room." So said Helmut Newton. The same man also decla...
Swatch From The Streets is a global city-off between some of the worlds coolest locations. Naturally, I was intrigued to find out which was chosen for London, in collaboration with i-D magazine. This...
I AM VERY FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO CALL MICHAEL A GREAT FRIEND OF MINE. NOT ONLY DOES HE HAVE THE MOST INCREDIBLE NATURAL EYE, BUT HE HAS THE UNCANNY ABILITY TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING. WHEN I W...
It was, and is still, a huge honour that I had my name dedicated to not one but FIVE of the pieces from the Jitrois Spring/Summer 2012 collection. The four ROY dresses and the IMOGEN green suede skir...
James Long womenswear 12-13 at the London Showrooms in Paris Call it what you will : the Downton effect, Diamond Jubilee influences or simply a post-recession neo romance explosion, but the curr...
I was aware of Giovanna as early as a few years ago. I recognised her distinctive bold sartorial style around shows in Paris and on the streetstyle blogs: strong colours, big shapes, lots of jewellry...
What do you mean by that? said the Caterpillar sternly. `Explain yourself! `I cant explain MYSELF, Im afraid, sir said Alice, `because Im not myself, you see. You may have noticed, I h...
FRESH FROM SETTING MILAN ALIGHT, WITH THAT PRADA STUNT HIGHLIGHTING AN ALL-ROUND STUNNING PERFORMANCE FROM MILANESE MENSWEAR , THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. IN DE VILLE. SO IM SIGNING OFF FOR A BIT TO R...
Next time the rain comes pouring down and youre caught in town without an umbrella, take an opportunity to seek shelter in a luxury store youve never been into and admire the beautiful things inside....
A VOGUE UK EDITORIAL INSPIRED BY BLOGGERS. I DONT KNOW MANY ANY BLOGGERS PERSONALLY WHO GET TO CAMP OUT IN LUXURY HOTELS, EAT BREAKFAST IN BED AND SELECT FROM HOT-FROM-THE-CATWALK PIECES EVERY MORNIN...
A COCKTAIL OF THINGS WHICH HAVE BEEN ON MY MIND THIS WEEK.Crystal Renn for Muse magazine (1). So plus-sized model Crystal Renn is certainly not plus-sized anymore, but so what? She looks fabulous. He...
NICOLE WISNIAK: «“EGOÏSTE” NEST PASBRANCHÉ. JE NE SAIS PAS CE QUE CEST»After a FIVE YEAR ABSENCE, FLAMBOYANT, PRESTIGIOUS, DIFFERENT MAGAZINE EGOISTE LAUNCHED ITS 16TH ISSUE, IN TWO PARTS, EARLIER TH...
What is a Winters Day? Never lasting more than a couple of hours, it is but the decaying remains of a day. The light never lifting more than a dull haze over a corpse-like landscape, laden with the s...
2011 - the year of parties, photography, Paris and a press office job. The year of my 21st birthday. The year of some amazing creative friendships, including Kate Woods, Jonathan Pryce and Audrey Rog...
A mélange of Christmas activities in Paris and in Scotland, where I have been for the last few days with my family. I bought my first ever tree for my own flat in Paris this year, and that sensationa...
Fashion designer Jean Claude Jitrois and myself playing the role of égerie (having been squeezed into a sample from the Jitrois SS 2012 collection), in his apartment overlooking the Tuileries gardens...
I absolutely adore this short video of two of my favourite London fashion figures talking about their place in this enormous industry. Saga Sig is an Icelandic photographer who brings mystical folklo...
CoChineChine is an independent fashion boutique based in Hampstead, London on Heath Street- a stones throw away from where I was born. Christmas is as an excellent time as any to support independent ...
"Id rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes." - Jane Birkin All photos from the Jane Birkin tumblr
With this Helmut Newton polaroid (below) in mind, I took Zora along for a night-time walk between the citys shadow-ridden structures. Paris really is the city of light - everything is illuminated. Wa...
For the past 16 years, the brightest names in the worlds of Parisian fashion, art and architecture have come together in December to each create a Christmas tree in their own aesthetic for Les Sapins...
Shopping for blood oranges, and documenting it as part of the Fru-Gal challenge for Eco-Age. Today is the last day in my week-long style diary of second-hand stories. The clothes are second-hand...
Outside theres a hurricane beating against the premature cheerfulness of one-thousand strings of fairy lights. They line the citys silhouette, glowing at their strongest over Pariss fattest departmen...
For their spring/summer 2012 collection, Jitrois kindly named a dress after me, and for its first public appearance, I dont think anything could have been more major : Arizona Muse for the rock nroll...
Audrey and I getting into the Autumnal spirit on the left bank in fuzzy headwear. Im wearing nearly all second-hand clothes, including the Chanel purse, picked up in a fleamarket in a Scottish countr...
Helmut Newton is possibly my biggest inspiration in fashion photography. As a result, I have pretty much all of his books (well, apart from this one, mostly because it is the most expensive book ever...
A few weeks ago on a sensational sunny Sunday, I invited photographer Jonathan Pryce into my humble abode for a shoot and video interview. Jon and I encountered each other on twitter, and when we rea...
Yesterday I found myself in none other than Karl Lagerfelds studio/library on the Left Bank. You can see for yourself what an incredible space it is. Four walls of books from floor to ceiling - its a...
Photographed in Impasse Delauney one Sunday morning just round the corner from my apartment in Paris by Jonathan for Les Garcons de Glasgow. Im wearing the colours of Le Bon Marché (see!) ; vint...
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