easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in culture, inspiration on Dec 30th, 2011
Somewhat unexpectedly, this was one of my Christmas presents this year. A box set of all eleven Doctor Who figures. They were held into their TARDIS-shaped box (it had doors! with velcro!) with forty-four little twisty ties, which gave me plenty of time to contemplate the little Doctors as I was wrestling them out of [...]
Written c. 1998 by Joan Juliet Buck, the editor-in-chief of French Vogue from 1994-2001: Hair is time. Women with short hair always look as if they have somewhere else to go. Women with long hair tend to look as if they belong where they are, especially in California. Short hair takes a short time. Long hair [...]
Posted in culture on Feb 18th, 2008
This weekend we were idly looking at the magazines in the local shop, when Paul said, “I can’t believe you haven’t picked up this!” “This” turned out to be a magazine by Yours (the best-selling lifestyle magazine for the fifty-plus woman, apparently), called, “50 Years of Everyday Fashion: How the Women of Britain Created Glamour [...]
Posted in culture on Jun 20th, 2007
Look at what my Mum found, when she was clearing out some things from my Grandma’s house! None of the envelopes have dates on them, but the style of the illustrations and the style of the clothes suggests late 1950s/early 1960s. Even better – they’re in a size which I can modify to actually fit [...]
Posted in culture on May 23rd, 2007
I’m reading the most fantastic book at the moment – The Way We Wore, by Robert Elms. It’s about one man, and the importance of his clothes as he grows up. It’s a social history, and a sartorial autobiography. Robert Elms is half a generation older than me, so some of the earlier parts of [...]
Posted in culture on May 18th, 2007
Isabella Blow died on May 8th 2007, from ovarian cancer. She was only 48. It is rumoured that she took her own life. She was Philip Treacy’s muse and mentor, and is credited with beginning and supporting the careers of Sophie Dahl and Alexander McQueen. Blow dressed in a way which suggested that she was [...]