leather and lace.

Topshop Boutique leather jacket, Reformed top, Cheap Monday jean, Sam Edelman boots

Photos taken after a night out so please ignore explain the odd expressions. Drunk photographing: more productive and less embarrassing that drunk texting!

"vanity is the beginning of all self-respect"

Diana Vreeland

back to earth (feat. flag)

Whistles cardigan, Topshop top, Topshop shorts, present necklace, Sam Edelman boots

"If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all." 

        Nancy Mitford

a london weekend

Getting the hang of the new camera on home-made Bircher museli and mammals...


Berry Bircher Museli


Prep time: 5-10 minutes
Porridge oats
Granola or nutty, crunchy cereal
Orange or apple juice
Honey
Vanilla yogurt
Raspberries
Strawberries

1. Pour porridge oats and a little granola into a bowl.
2. Add enough juice to cover the oats, and mix until it looks like a gooey, oaty mess. Press it flat into the bowl with the back of the spoon.
2. Pour a little yogurt onto the oaty bed.
3. Liberally sprinkle your chopped fruit on top
4. Add more yogurt, then drizzle honey over the mount of deliciousness
5. Sprinkle with granola or nuts for an extra crunch.
6. Dig your spoon into the mixture, bring it to your mouth, and savour the breakfast of healthy kings.

Une icône de la mode: An Ode to Emanuelle Alt

, 

Emanuelle Alt, newly-appointed Editor of Vogue Paris, I salute you.

 I have been searching for you for a long time.You are the epitome of Parisian cool. You are sexy, but not obviously; androgynous but still feminine. Your look is never dull, despite the dark colour palette and clear favourite wardrobe staples, like your perfect leather jacket. You understand the importance of incredible shoes in an otherwise simple outfit. You are going to lead the most daring and forward thinking magazine in popular circulation. You are a forty three year old mother yet you look twenty five.

 You are my hero.

1.Black plastic flip flops, they're easy, practical, chic and sexy.
2. Black Wolford tights (because of the magnificent campaign by Newton)
3. Black Helmut Lang trousers, because they are timeless, low-waisted, loose fitting but not baggy.
4. I don't wear them but, from time to time a black Anne Demeulemester skirt, perfectly cut, worn barefoot with perfectly tanned legs.
5. A black Costume National coat, closely fitted, modern style.
6. A Glossies by Gossard bra, incredible, in black or nude, seamless like tights.
7. A black APC t-shirt, short sleeved, because its small, it looks like it's from the 1970s, and it ages well.
8. Black Armani sunglasses, like Bono from U2

9. An 'Air King' Rolex watch, because they don't make a better one.
10. A long black Galliano dress, chic without being old-fashioned, sexy, pure, with Manolo Blahnick heels.

russian revolution

Vintage fur hat, Ecote jacket, Topshop belt, Topshop leather shorts, Sam Edelman boots

This hat makes me feel like some kind of revolutionary Russian soldier. To maintain this illusion I will drink vodka and eat black cherries and smoke Sobraines and intimidate everyone with an ice-cold stare.

...or I'll just go to the supermarket and get some odd looks.


"And although she felt sure that his love for her was waning, there was nothing she could do, she could not in any way alter her relations to him. Just as before, only by love and by charm could she keep him. And so, just as before, only by occupation in the day, by morphine at night, could she stifle the fearful thought of what would happen if he ceased to love her."
                                                      
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Le Debut.

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. 

Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle The world you desired can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible.

It is yours."

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged