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Marilyn Monroe and the Duality of Being
I’ve been reading a lot of book on Marilyn Monroe recently. I was given this book to review (which will be up next week) and have progressed onto Fragments, a selection of Monroe’s notes, letters and...
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The Reading List: Everything Oz…
…The Wizard Book of Makes & Bakes by Christine Leech and Hannah Read-Baldrey This is a cute one. Everything Oz comes to you from the authors of Everything Alice, a themed craft and cookery book...
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The Reading List; The ‘Vogue On…’ Designer Series
The Vogue On… Designer series has been debuted this month by the good folks at Quadrille Publishing with a bumper crop of revered designers. Alexander McQueen, Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli and...
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The Reading List: Masters of Fashion Illustration
Antonio Lopez For those who missed out on buying the hardback edition of David Downton’s Masters of Fashion Illustration, fear not – Laurence King have just released a paperback edition that is ever...
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Edith Wharton in Vogue
These pictures are a few months old (and therefore ancient in fashion/internet terms) but I still want to share this Annie Leibovitz spread for American Vogue. Styled by Grace Coddington, Natalia...
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The Reading List: Where Were You?
Oh, gosh. Where to start? ‘Where Were You?’ is a book that charts the evolution of Irish street style from the Fifties until the turn of the century. Meticulously compiled over the past four years by...
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The Reading List: Bunny Yeager’s Darkroom…
… Pinup Photography’s Golden Era. The gentle art of pinup photography has been interpreted in a few different ways, first as enjoyable smut, then as kitsch, finally as a postfeminist emancipation...
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Snoopy Around The World
In the course of developing this little website, I’ve also developed an increasingly soft spot for pop culture in all its forms, especially if it’s tied in with fashion in any way. On seeing these...
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The Reading List: Katharine Hepburn – Rebel Chic
I’ve read a few bummer style books recently, so I was relieved to find that Katharine Hepburn: Rebel Chic was, like the woman herself, just delightful – a breath of fresh air during a brisk walk...
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The Reading List: Diana Vreeland, Empress of Style
Diana Vreeland: Empress of Fashion is the first full-length biography of the legendary Vogue editor and self-mythologiser where words and facts take precedence over pictures and unverified if exciting...
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Nonconformist Fashion Tips, with a Personal Introduction
Hi everyone. Hi there. For a little while back there, I fell out of love with blogging. What happened was this: I applied for (and got into) the MA in Fashion course at Central Saint Martins, which...
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Things to Read #15
“No other human has ever matched Andre as a drinker. He is the zenith. He is the Mount Everest of inebriation.” Andre the Giant, the greatest drunk on Earth. Modern Drunkard Magazine, a site dedicated...
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The Reading List: The Vogue Factor…
… by Kirstie Clements. Clements, the Vogue Australia editor who was unceremoniously sacked in 2012, says something in her book that will really hit home with fashion journalists; a newspaper mentality...
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Things to Read #23
A history of the New York Time Styles section, in which it is confirmed that every subject I write about is seen by the general public as totally inane and useless. Yay? Before Kim K and her oily...
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Things to Read #30
“It was shortly after the British Red Cross arrived, though it may have no connection, that a very large quantity of lipstick arrived. This was not at all what we men wanted, we were screaming for...
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Things to Read #33
No round up last week, because I was finishing the final project for my MA (yep, I did one of those), the cover of which you can see here. It took a very long time and a lot of effort and a surprising...
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