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From Cool Hunting, an Inspiring 5 minute interview with Fire Island Opera’s Edwin Cahill (Artistic Director) and Bradley Moore (Music Director) as they reflect on last summer’s performances, and talk about what’s next. I really love the way Fire Island are attempting to make opera a more accessible art form for those who are unfamiliar with it […]
MoreHaving seen a lot of feathers and furs paraded down the recent Runways for AW14 Collections, how timely that MoMu, in Antwerp, should have on a Birds of Paradise exhibition, running to 24 August 2014: This exhibition is an ode to the elegance and refinement of the application of plumes and feathers in fashion and […]
MoreHaving read about illustrator Helen Bullock, see illustration above, in both AnOther magazine – Drama At Prada AW14 – and 1883 magazine – Interview Helen Bullock, I clicked across to her own website for more info. From there, I went on to SHOWstudio and, oh yes, this I like: SHOWstudio is an award-winning fashion website, founded […]
MoreIn my monthly troll through interiors magazines – I am more invested in this than usual with upcoming home improvements happening – I was engaged by the charming illustrations that accompany these extracts from Alastair McAlpine’s World of a Collector columns, featured in the World Of Interiors (WOI) Magazine April 2014, following his death in […]
MoreAdam is just my favourite person in Girls – he was so sweetly adult in last week’s penultimate episode of Girls and juxtaposed against his otherwise wild boyishness … what’s not to thank Lena Dunham for in creating him and Adam Driver for bringing him to life onscreen? See them both, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, […]
MoreI really love this Solar Bracelet by Bibi van der Velden but, as an infrequent wearer of jewellery at the moment, I just don’t think I can afford to buy it. at €2,670, to have it sit on a shelf at home alongside the many other pretty things that I have and do not wear. […]
MoreIt is such a beautiful day – light, bright, warm. A day for flowers. Specifically, having seen them yesterday in the Sunday Times Magazine, Robert Mapplethorpe’s Flowers: click across to view more on The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation site. Exquisite. All is calm in my world … for the moment.
MoreDay 2 of my look back at the Autumn/Winter Runway shows – lots more to see at Fashionising Runway so check it out. These images include designers new to me, looks I love from mainstream collections, the quirky and new or comfortable and familiar. Lots to inspire thought, laughter, admiration and thrills as well as refining and […]
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