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Oh I Want You, I Want You… I Want You So Bad – Mr Bob Dylan 1966 What Really Matters right now in music, fashion and chocolate! Well, that’s the hedonist in me, ethically, of course! Take Me Beyond the Valley If you want to be a fashion comet, not just a mere fashion [...]
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Francois Sagan once famously suggested that ‘A dress only works if a man wants to take it off ’. Lucy Tammam, a graduate in Fashion and Textiles from St Martin School of Art and Design, makes heart-stoppingly lovely tailored daywear, evening gowns and Beatonesque, elegant bridal gowns in the fairest Fairtrade silk, satin and lace [...]
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Interview with Sir David Attenborough By Alison Jane Reid Sir David Attenborough, broadcaster par excellence, naturalist, and our greatest living Englishman, is not himself. Attenborough has the builders in, at his pretty Strawberry Gothic cottage in Richmond, for what he calls ‘ necessary alterations.’ They are the politest, nicest builders I have ever encountered, so [...]
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Queen Victoria’s passion for the Isle of Wight – England’s St Tropez – quickly transformed the diamond-shaped isle twinkling in the Solent into the most fashionable place in all Europe. It seems that anyone who is anyone has visited the island at some point – from Lily Langtree to flirt and promenade at Cowes – [...]
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I’m at the Minghella Film Festival on the Isle of Wight, an intimate Sundance beside the sea, to catch up with a man who can cause a collective sigh of feminine longing and desire from Woking to Washington, and no I don’t mean Colin Firth. My subject is Hugh Bonneville, a man who has enjoyed [...]
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I’ve been thinking a lot about beauty, and how it has been debased in our shiny, over packaged, homeogenised world. Isn’t it time to celebrate the kind of heart-stopping, ravishing beauty that once sent men to war and compelled a man like Richard Burton to buy Elizabeth Taylor a flawless diamond to match the the [...]
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As regular readers of the site will know, I’m a big champion of intelligent fashion brands that understand the very pressing need to clean up their act and cut their environmental footprint without taking the sheer, giddy, unadulterated pleasure out of buying a sublime, beautiful item of clothing or a must have accessory that has [...]
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I’ve always been curious about how the whole East End arts scene burst into being around the vibrant cultural hotspots of Brick Lane and Shoreditch. So I couldn’t resist Timberland’s novel invitation to meet for breakfast at their store on Fournier Street and then join art expert Julia Royse for a tour of some of [...]
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Summer is here! – Let’s all become beautiful magpies in a dream of a whimsical summer dress or Anne of Green Gables pinafore to break hearts and turn heads by British newcomer, and arch princess of luxe reinvention, Lu Flux. I swear it won’t be long before her extraordinary, extrovert, happy clothes find their way into the [...]
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Oval Farmers Market, St Mark’s Church, Kennington, SE11 4PW Every Saturday 10.00am until 3pm, In a perverse sort of way, I could argue that the arrival of Tesco in Kennington has been very good for The Oval Farmers’ Market. Make a beeline for this vibrant, exciting Saturday market, and go early, because there is currently [...]
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