Doesn’t everyone just love stories of people who weren’t trained in a specific field and still manage to make a name for themselves in spite of it? “Because for one, perfume is very...
“After a week of in-your-face colors and dizzying prints, Francisco Costa served up a palette cleanser for Spring.(…) What was new was the softness and the femininity. Occasionally in the...
“Those chic, sweeping black lines, kicking up sexily at the corners and made iconic by Monroe, Bardot and Hepburn, remain one of my all-time favourite looks.” Sali Hughes (x)
Now that summer’s in full swing again, it’s back to working out on a regular basis. A nice side effect, that isn’t mentioned very often I find, is that because one sweats out all th...
I feel like this girl would listen to Carla Bruni or Keren Ann, wear Miss Dior Chérie and read classics like A Room with a View or The Portrait of a Lady. C’est tout. Scans via here.
“With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot lad. By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lipt girls are sleepi...
Though I rank contacts right up there with pain killers & stretch jeans as some of the great inventions of the last century, I’ve been wearing my glasses a lot again lately and as I am near...
So, when I saw this picture of Anya Ziourova I thought to myself: “Oh, what a swanky top! I wanna have one just like it.” Out I went, stopped by H&M on a whim (because ugh, haven̵...
“A coffee shop is a unique place: I can spend hours there without feeling rushed, divorced from the set timetable of a meal in a resaurant.” Alone Time, Brian Ferry for Kinfolk Magazine “I once...
“As I got older, the tea parties became a bit less one sided, and I learnt that tea always has a language, never more potent than in the “How do you take it?’ early days of courtship. Carol Ann...
Sous Style’s Wake Up Call series is lovely. 8:00 a.m. Wake up my daughter, Sofia, give her clothes for the day, ask her what she wants for breakfast, convince her not to have waffles again. She...
Fabergé pyjamas from Balmain. Olivier Rousteing traded Las Vegas for St. Petersburg and Nudie suits for Fabergé eggs. He looked to czarist Russia. (x) “Summer in St. Petersburg was as light ...
My birthday is in less than a month now and I got myself a subscription to Kinfolk Magazine & a trip to Italy. You can buy the lovely wood pieces featured in the photographs over at Herriott ...
The Gryffindor common room, secured by the oil painting of the Fat Lady in a pink silk dress, will most likely be the first image that springs to mind when one mentions common rooms. Unlike Hogwarts,...
You know a lot of what we do, eat, wear etc. has become part of an online performance. I do think, however, there’s something positive that can be said for it. And that’s the care you end...
Party style aside, Paris differs greatly from Vienna where going out is concerned in one vital aspect: most clubs will charge 4€ if you wanna leave a bag with the cloak room (and 2€ for a coat). Now,...
clean (kln) adj. clean·er, clean·est 1. Free from foreign matter or pollution. 2. Not ornate or intricate; spare: ”the clean lines and exquisite proportions of early modernism” (Judith Th...
(Louise Bourgeois: Be Calm; Rosemarie Trockel: Anima 11.Mai bis 2.Oktober 1994) “All your books and pictures and…” “Paperbacks and postcards, Jenny.” “It’s...
The curse of analogue photography as shown above: the blink. I didn’t really take a whole lot of pictures while in Paris to be honest, so there aren’t any more coming I’m afraid. No...
Listening to Goldmund & Martha Wainwright this evening.
(Marla Farrell: sous style; Malin Elmlid: freunde von freunden) 7:30 a.m. As soon as I’m done, I grab The New York Times. News alerts and the web are great, but I’m an old soul at heart and the pape...
(bought both postcards at Versailles) “Violets contain ionone, which short-circuits our sense of smell. The flower continues to exude its fragrance, but we lose the ability to smell it. Wait ...
TV series: I’ve been watching a lot of The West Wing lately and I would love to think that this is what I would wear to a day of work in the Oval Office. The clutch being for all the little thi...
Anya Ziourova; Virginie Mouzat & Emmanuelle Alt. (Click to enlarge. More pictures behind the cut. Please be so kind & credit.) More pictures at my Tumblr.
(Click to enlarge. More pictures behind the cut. Please be so kind & credit.) More pictures at my Tumblr.
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