Just one of the reasons I love Lulu Kennedy

Here's Lulu looking totally fabulous in a dress by Jonathan Saunders at the launch of her label Lulu & Co the other week.  I'm still pissed off that I had to drop out due to a stupid cold!
I pinched the following pictures from Lulu's blog because they really made me laugh and there is a definite theme on my blog this week of smoking and tassels, with which they fit perfectly!
Photography by

Spanish Fly, Islington

Photography by Kitty Walker
Last night I went along to my friend Christos' club night, Spanish Fly at Albert and Pearl in Islington with the ever lovely Jo Butler and Daisy Beaumont.  We had a right old catch up.  Here's a few of my snaps.  I wish they were as good as Kitty Walker's pictures of the venue above!

There was a great rockabilly band and gogo dancers Cherry and Treacle were

Back in the days when everyone smoked

Tallulah Bankhead

Marlene Dietrich

Coco Chanel has a cigarette in most pictures

Lauren Bacall

Gary Cooper
Marilyn Monroe
Bette Davis
James Dean

Steve McQueen

Katharine Hepburn

Photography by Irving PennLisa Fonssagrives

Photography by Irving PennLisa FonssagrivesI think she has a feather in her mouth - but it looks like she's smoking


Bette Davis
Photography by David BaileyMichael

I'd love to give up smoking

Photography by Sølve Sundsbø
I've smoked since I was twelve years old.  I know it's a terrible habit and I wish I hadn't started but I did and I am addicted to it.  I'm a Seventies child and when I was growing up everybody smoked.  My friends and I used to spend ages sitting in my mum's bathroom at the vanity unit practising our smoking techniques in the mirror.  It didn't do a lot for me - I

The bottom of the dressing up box - Part two

My wardrobe overhaul came to a standstill after I ran out of the amazing thin black velvet hangers.  I took delivery of another 150 yesterday so I'm back on the case.  I have the biggest mound of washing ever which I'm currently working through and the house looks like a Chinese laundry.  But I AM getting  there at long last.
The brilliant thing about finally sorting out my wardrobe is

Do psychics judge what you look like?

Photography by Elle Muliarchyk
New York film maker and photographer Elle Muliarchyk got in touch with me about a guerilla film she's made with a model I love, Meghan Collison.  The film is an experiment to how our "outer shell" affects our lives and fortunes.  Elle had been to lots of clairvoyants and believed how she dressed hugely affected what they told her.
Meghan underwent ten drastic

Pictures I love

Hedy Lamarr, 1930's.  So beautiful!
Here's another little random collection of pictures from my desktop.  I love the vintage look of some of them even though they were taken recently.
Photography by Steven MeiselNatalia Vodianova, 2009


Marlene Dietrich, 1930's.  I love her jewellery

Photography by Sofia Sanchez and Mauro MongielloMariacarla Boscono, 2010


Judy Garland, 1940's


Ursula