A Silk Shirt from Sezane
If you follow any style Instagrammers, you have probably heard of Sezane. It’s one of those new generation brands: straight to consumers, mostly online, with a very strong social media presence and relaxed styling. The clothes are simple, but not quite basic..
An Unlikely Favourite: Armenian Pasta Salad with Grapes and Pistachios
There are people who love eating familiar foods and others who are always craving the new and the strange. I enjoy both, but my sweet spot is somewhere in between: things that are understandable enough to be easy to like, but unexpected enough to surprise an..
November Memo: Scarves, Candles and Ancient Rome
Another month, another memo. As I have very little time to do anything but work at the moment, it’s a rather short one*. That said, I have managed to sneak in some moments of reading, eating, drinking, screen-shopping (it’s like window-shopping, but online) ..
Skincare Update: The Ordinary, DCL, Lixir and Glow Recipe
I’ve been trying to scale down my skincare purchases, mostly to make sure I only buy things I truly like but also because if I don’t, there will be no trip to Australia for me in December. I’m not on a total buying ban, however: I indicated in my last overvi..
Modern Dandies
For a person who blogs about style, I constantly underestimate my visual side. I don’t mean my abilities (these are moderate), but my enthusiasm for it and my need for visual inspiration. It’s mostly because I always think of myself as a words person first –..
The Blue Dress: Reflections on Shape and Silhouette
In September, I wrote about wearing colour and shared pictures of my pink Lilli Jahilo dress. However, I never got around to posting about the other dress from her Art collection that I own, as the office wear series took a while to get through. But I’m not ..
A Couple of Words on Champagne
Years ago at a team-building exercise, I had to come up with a surprising fact about myself. I hate these kinds of activities and couldn’t deliver anything remotely interesting. Or surprising, for that matter. I’ve given it some thought afterwards and analys..
Cheap Face: Skincare
If there is one good thing about my love for fancy skincare, it’s that when I come across something cheap that I like, you can be relatively certain it’s decent quality. Of course, it may still not be right for you, because your skin is different, but it’s u..
Lady of the Manor: the Erdem x H&M Collaboration
One of the first posts I wrote for the blog was Fräulein of the Manor, about a „life of delicate boredom and refined provincialness”. I said there that Lady of the Manor is a different creature who might feature in a future post. And lo and behold, that day ..
October Memo: Rihanna, Dior and Blade Runner
I had the idea for this post when I mentioned Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line to a make-up artist and turned out she had not heard of it. It’s obviously completely OK to not be up to date with another celebrity brand about a week after it’s launched. Most normal..