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Liberty London Girl
www.libertylondongirl.com
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The thoughts of Sasha Wilkins, an English Fashion Editor travelling between London, Manhattan & Los Angeles, on life, love, design, food & style.
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New Website: An Affair with Italy

One of the loveliest fashion photographers with whom I’ve shot, Julie Adams, has recently launched a beautiful new website, An Affair with Italy, with her friend Emma Scott (a writer and designer) to...

3 h ago 1 person likes this

New Dress Woes

And suddenly I look up and we are half way through February. The new year, new me campaign has stalled slightly due to the snow: it’s hard to concentrate on eating plates of avocado when my toes and ...

1 day ago 1 person likes this

LLG Lifestyle: Roses for Valentine’s Day

Personally, Valentine’s Day leaves me pretty much stone cold. If the only time you feel able to tell your partner that you love them is on a day mandated by the greetings card industry then things ha...

3 days ago 1 person likes this

Dog of the Day: Gaspard the Dalmatian (Supported by Dogs Trust)

I was scouting in East London last Sunday for a film project when I wandered into  Maison Trois Garcons, the truly fabulous furniture and interior store, owned by nearby Shoreditch landmark restauran...

3 days ago

LLG Accessories: Sawako Furuno Bicycle Helmets

I have wanted a Sawako Furuno cycling helmet since I first wrote about them in 2008, when I bemoaned the (then) bizarre attitude of some New Yorkers to cycling). But I either couldn’t afford one, or ...

4 days ago

LLG Campaigns: Speak up, Save a Life…

Each one of these women was murdered by her partner. Sam Baker, the editor in chief of Red magazine published this letter on the Red website this week: “This is a personal plea, from me, to you, to l...

4 days ago

LLG Fashion: Uniqlo Heattech

This is how I spent most of the weekend. It’s amazing how, as you get older, you really do care less about what people think. When it’s cold outside I just want to be as warm as possible, and sod sty...

5 days ago

LLG Beauty: Winter skincare regime

When the weather is harsh outdoors, my main priority is to stop my face falling off, without having to spend hours patting unguents into my face…I am the queen of up, shower, shampoo, dry, make up an...

5 days ago 2 people like this

LLG Fashion: James Perse Opening in London

I know it’s rather unusual for me to run fashion news on LLG, but I am quite excited about the upcoming opening of the first UK James Perse store. If only because it will make me less homesick for Ne...

6 days ago

Re-Post: LLG Fashion: Snow Boots! Hunter Boots for the Snow!

Regular readers will know that I posted this first back at the beginning of December as a Christmas present suggestion but, now that it is actually snowing outdoors, I thought a re-post was in order....

6 days ago

LLG Culture: Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Sure, I’m a museum junkie. Not in London, of course. In common with most people, I beeline to galleries & exhibitions when abroad, but somehow fail miserably to get off my gnocchi-filled ass to d...

05 feb 12

Saturday in London: The Delaunay to snowfall via Regent’s Park

Today was really a properly lovely day. From a delicious breakfast in great company at The Wolseley’s new sister, The Delaunay, to the romance of a heavy snowfall this evening, it was one of the most...

05 feb 12

LLG Food. Recipe Friday: Super Bowl avocado & bean layer dip

I first ran this recipe exactly two years ago, during a very very cold snap, when I was practically snowed-in, in the English countryside, with my mother. I was feeling homesick for America, and knew...

03 feb 12 5 people like this

Dog of the Day: Dougal, the fawn French Bulldog puppy, in association with Dogs Trust

Today’s Dog of the Day is Dougal, the fawn French Bulldog puppy. Now four months old, Dougal hangs out with My Wardrobe.com’s PR Director Lauren Stevenson & her husband. Do not even THINK of ente...

02 feb 12 6 people like this

Dog of the Day & Dogs Trust

(Uggie doing his thing in London.) After I ran, on a spur of the moment decision, a photograph of Brian the rescue greyhound and named him LLG’s Dog of the Day, I was overwhelmed by the reader respon...

02 feb 12

LLG Giveaway: Goldsign Virginia flared jeans worth £335

It’s been aaaages since I did a giveaway here on LLG, so here’s a good one. I have a BRAND NEW & unworn pair of Goldsign’s immensely flattering, red hot flared Virginia jeans in a size 27 to give...

01 feb 12 1 person likes this

Guest Post: Dating Tips & Advice for Women Dating Men on the Internet

A few weeks back I posted my Top Ten Tips for Internet Dating, gleaned from a heady whirl of online dating in New York a few years back. It incited a LOT of comment, here & on Twitter. One of the...

01 feb 12 4 people like this

LLG Wins Best Fashion Twitter Feed at Marie Claire Awards!

I just wanted to say a massive thank you to all the lovely readers & followres who voted for me in Marie Claire UK’s inaugural Blog & Twitter Awards. That’s because I WON! Best Fashion Twitte...

31 jan 12 1 person likes this

LLG Travels: Héritage Berbère Parfumerie Marrakech

As you come out of the walled entrance to Yves Saint Laurent’s Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech, where we spent a glorious afternoon wandering, the first thing that you see across the road are a series ...

31 jan 12

Psyching my Wardrobe up for Fashion Week

(My shoes are so unused I’m reduced to making them part of my decor. Kirkwood on left, Bohinc on right) I know Christmas is long gone now, but I kind of feel like I have been blobbing around like a, ...

30 jan 12 2 people like this

LLG Digest: A Week in LLG from Montreal to the Reading Festival (in 1990)

LLG Travels: Montréal Mini Guide. A Guest Post from The Spice Spoon LLG Travels: An afternoon in Munich LLG Travel Beauty: Hair & beauty essentials for travelling LLG Tech: Red Online Blogging Ma...

30 jan 12

LLG London: Sunday in Shoreditch & Bethnal Green

I find it very easy to do  precisely nothing at weekends. From 2009 & 2010 when I had no home, wrote and travelled,  and didn’t engage much with business, and therefore had no proper differentiat...

29 jan 12 2 people like this

LLG Books & Tech: Khoya storytelling app

One of the unexpected discoveries that I made at DLD wasn’t an introduction or a technological advancement, but came whilst I was in the audience for a panel of developers talking about new apps. Amo...

29 jan 12

LLG London: Parliament Hill Farmer’s Market

The whole London Farmers Market thing has pretty much passed me by. Before I moved to America I remember there being one by Camden Passage in Islington at weekends, but I had no idea that there was n...

29 jan 12

LLG Digest: A whirling week around the world

LLG’s Top Ten Tips for Internet Blind Dating LLG Travels: Off to Montréal — for two days LLG Beauty: Suntan lotions & creams reviewed Guest Blog: A Day In The Life: Donna Ida Thornton of Donna Id...

28 jan 12

Recipe Friday: Jerusalem Artichoke (Sunchoke) Soup with Fried Chestnut Mushrooms

I adore Jersusalem artichokes but I may as well be up front. They aren’t known as fartichokes for nothing. Do not serve these to anyone on a first date, unless you really want to make an impression. ...

28 jan 12 1 person likes this

LLG Music: Reading Festival 1990 & Inspiral Carpets. (Blast from the past.)

I found these in the attic of doom just before we moved out of the family home last summer. I was there at Reading that summer and, frankly, that poster, even after 21 years is in a better state that...

27 jan 12

LLG Tech: Red Online Blogging Masterclass

There is much love for the UK’s Red magazine here at LLG mission control. (And not just because I won Blogger of the Year at the 2011 Red Hot Women of the Year Awards.) So when they asked me if I’d l...

26 jan 12 1 person likes this

LLG Travel Beauty: Hair & beauty essentials for travelling

Given that for some trips it makes no sense to pack hold baggage, I have to be inventive when I choose & pack my  beauty products. Current airport regulations  for what you can take in cabin bagg...

26 jan 12 1 person likes this

LLG Travels: An afternoon in Munich

Oh I had the best afternoon. After a morning of thinking quite hard at DLD, from the first thing one-on-one briefing (hey let’s talk SOPA at 830am, my brain is totally working right now. COFFEE) with...

25 jan 12 1 person likes this

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