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A Box of Delights: Valentino Couture Spring 2016
The couture shows are coming to an end in Paris – compared to fashion weeks proper, couture takes so little time that I almost miss it every year. But not quite. I love looking at these incredible displays of unnecessariness, season after season. It is for m..
The Winter Garden
I’m very much with Miranda Priestly on florals: “Florals for spring? Groundbreaking.” Traditional floral patterns in traditional context don’t seem that exciting to me – too predictable, too pretty, too not-statement-making.* Now, winter florals are a differ..
The Quiet End of All Things
The end of the year is a time of stress and loudness and running around, sweaty and annoyed. Miraculously, I feel calmer and calmer as December approaches, quiet and serene. I’ve given up on achieving some things that no longer seem necessary. I’ve become al..
The Bitch Dress
There was much internal agonizing over the title of this post. I’m not in the habit of encouraging anyone to be bitchy and I’m even less enthusiastic about calling women bitchy when they’re being assertive. Or just having an opinion, for that matter. But the..
A Casual Dress
My enthusiasm for dresses is well documented. Dresses make total sense to me: nothing has a better effort/impact ratio, and I am both lazy and vain. That said, I do understand why people feel that a full-length white dress or a super-fitted orange one are to..
The Wardrobe Rule That Drives Me Insane
You know how they say that you shouldn’t buy anything that doesn’t go with at least three things in your wardrobe? Well, I’m sorry to inform you that this is complete bullshit. Come to think of it, I’m actually not sorry to inform you, I’m delighted.
Firs..
Elegance, Interrupted
There is a scene in The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (by the great Alexandre Dumas) where Louis XIV remarks on the good taste of Louise de la Vallière – among the gaudily dressed nobility of the province, she is the only person with the good sense ..
I Can Do Flowers
When asked if I like floral patterns, my first instinct is to say no. The reality is, as is often the case, a bit more nuanced. I do like florals, I just don’t like the boring ones, especially of the dainty variety. But as soon as the prints start to resembl..
A Dress to Impress
I’m a great believer in dresses. Not because I think women should wear dresses because they are women and real women wear dresses, but because I find them very efficient. You put a dress on, you are dressed. I also like the clean, unfussy line a dress can gi..
On the Beauty of Packing
I’m travelling to Estonia today and it reminded me how many people have said lately that they hate packing. We need to talk about this, because many people are wrong and need to realize that packing is, in fact, great.
The thing with life is that it’s imp..