TypePad Featured Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Swelle Life is written by Denise Grayson, a Canadian living in England. She also happens to “live in fantasyland part time, where everything around me is high style/fashion from the 1920s to the 1960s…where I indulge in the wonderful...
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
While we're happy to hear that Acne is introducing its first underwear line, we're just as intrigued by how the company has characterized the new collection (pictured) in its press materials. Below, our favorite sentences from the release: -"[It's] for...
high up in the trees (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
{Is this enough to sufficiently woo you? collaborative collage by Gracia & Louise for L&S.} 1. Today is my Dad’s birthday and we spent the day perusing Art Deco splendor at the NGV (Art Deco 1910–1939). We took in the beauty of the foyer from the Strand Palace Hotel (1930-31), Lanvin evening dresses, stained pearwood armchairs, Cecil Beaton gelatin silver photographs and radios made from bakelite,...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
IT IS perhaps surprising that the willowy beauty, adored by photographers, lipstick advertisers and movie-makers, who cruised through five husbands in a career which makes today’s supermodel, Kate Moss, seem like a girl guide, should have studied calculus at university.
My Fashion Life (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
An aura of deconstructed grandeur seems to be encircling the world of fashion at the moment. From the A/W08 collections of Balenciaga and Prada to the Cecil Beaton influence at Erin Fetherston’s resort collection to recent shoots in Dazed and Confused and Paris Vogue, the reluctant debutant is stomping her delicate little ankles all over [...]
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
IT WILL be a surprise to some to know that there is more to Snowdon than a womanising shutter-bug.
The Herald (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
REVIEW: There’s something a little out of focus about the Tate Modern’s sprawling new photography exhibition.
Simple Financial Advice (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” - Cecil Beaton There are millions of blogs in the blogosphere and, unless your blogging about teaching your parrot advanced calculus, thousands in your niche. Right [...]
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
LONDON - Comprising over 300 works by 19th - and 20th - century photographers, Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography will present a fascinating history of photographic portraiture taken in cities around the world. Including work by Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidibé, Wolfgang Tillmans and Weegee,...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The common perception of Ian Fleming's blessed, martini-drinking writing life misses the reality by some distance, as modern spy novelists will testify
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Madonna might be looking to sell her English country home. According to the Telegraph, "The house was the setting for Madonna's tweedy phase, during which she took up traditional English pursuits... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
The 'High Priestess' of Happy Valley left her biographer a feast of scandals to chew over, writes Kayt Turner
Foto Decadent (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
HORST B. HORST a selection of vintage (mostly '30s/'40s) fashion works Mistinguett, Molyneux Dress, 1934 Reboux hat, Pauline de Rothschild, 1950 The Gibson Girls, Vogue, 1948 Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner, Miss Penelope Dudley-Ward and Mr. Cecil Beaton in "Lady Windermere`s Fan" Goya Fashion - Mrs. Stanley G. Mortimer (later Mrs. William Paley) & Mrs. Desmond Fitzgerald (later Mrs. Ronald Tree) modelling...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Travel: Rory MacLean visits a hotel in the High Atlas mountains to see how responsible tourism is bringing benefits to the local community
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Rory MacLean visits a hotel in the High Atlas mountains to see how responsible tourism is bringing benefits to the local community
