Elizabeth Taylor’s Jewellery at Christie’s
“I hope their presence and their magic will be passed on to others, loved but not possessed, for we are...
New Book by Celia Birtwell
We have just finished reading Celia Birtwell’s fabulous new book. As one of Britain’s best-known and best-loved designers, it was such...
Chanel Promenade at Harrods – London
Yesterday we visited Harrods to see the new and rather fabulous Chanel installation, on view for three weeks. Almost every window of...
La Pausa: Chanel’s Riviera Villa
Coco Chanel’s Riviera villa, La Pausa, is now on sale for £35m. Beyond most people’s budgets of course, but for one...
The Royal Wedding Dress: A Story of Great British Design
Last week we slipped behind the gilded gates of Buckingham Palace to view the Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress which, this year, is part...
Glamour of the Gods
Almost all the photographs in the exhibition are vintage prints collected from the archive of the John Kobal Foundation. There are...
Fashionable Faces at Claridges – London
We were excited to hear that our favourite London hotel: Claridges is to install one of our favourite fashion illustrators: David Downton as...
Coco Chanel: The Legend And The Life
The last book we read on the subject of ‘Coco’ Gabrielle Chanel was by French writer and former editor-in-chief of French...
Aware: Art Fashion Identity
The third season of contemporary art at 6 Burlington Gardens examines how contemporary artists and designers use clothing as a...
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion is the first exhibition in Europe to comprehensively survey avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the...
Couture Collection – The Hardy Amies Museum & Archive
To coincide with the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Sir Hardy Amies, Royal Dressmaker to HM Queen Elizabeth II,...