I buy yet more sequins

Photography by Honer AkrawiMona Johannesson
There must be a helpline or something!  I know it's the wrong time of year but I love sequins and I love a bargain.  Inspired by pictures like these I found another little number I couldn't resist.

Tallulah is modelling it for me.  The jacket is a perfect fit but sadly I can't do the zip up to the top on the trousers!  Time for that holiday diet I

Friday quotes - Diana Vreeland

"You gotta have style.  It helps you get up in the morning.  It's a way of life.  Without it you're nobody.  And I'm not talking about a lot of clothes"
Diana Vreeland(1903 -1989)
Diana Vreeland was the most influential magazine editor of the last century. Working as fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar and Editor-in-Chief of American Vogue, she was described as "The century's most formidable

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part fifty

"Be a first rate version of yourselfinstead of a second rate version of somebody else"
Judy Garland(1922-1969)



"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary"
Cecil Beaton(1904-1980)



"To get back my youth I would do anything in the

Mad about red

Photography by Mario TestinoNatalia Vodianova
I'm still sorting out my overloaded laptop (and wardrobe! - seemingly the longest job ever).   I have folders of every colour but for some reason have much more red than anything else.   Here's some more of my red pictures.
Photography by Samuli KaralaKirsi Pyrhonen

Photography by Mert Atlas and Marcus PiggottLara Stone

Photography by Emre

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part thirty three

"The only real elegance comes from the mind;if you've got that, the rest comes from it"
Diana Vreeland(1903-1989)




"One may become rich, but one is born elegant"
Honoré de Balzac(1799-1850)




"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future"
Coco Chanel(1883-1971)



Portrait by Harcourt Studio