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Betty Blue Eyes April 2011
Dear Rowley, Well, ducks, I finally have a proof of the Fashion at Royal Ascot cover. Do you love it? The hat is Stephen Jones and the dress Vivienne Westwood. The art direction is Peter Dawson and I have to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Bennett, Alisa Moussaieff, Audrey Hepburn, Bahrain, Bespoke Banter, Betty, Betty Blue Eyes, Cause Celebre, Cecil Beaton, Chichester Festival, Clone Zone, Dear Rowley, Elizabeth Taylor, Empress Livia, ES Swimwear, Fashion at Royal Ascot, GIA, Glenn Miller, Hatchard's, Helena Bonham carter, Holborn Health Spa, I Claudius, Imelda Staunton, James Sherwood, Joyce Chilvers, Judi Dench, Julia Mackenzie, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, Libya, Liza Minnelli, Michael Ball, Middle EAst, Mrs Moussaieff, My Fair Lady, Nobody, Nobu, Old Compton Street, Oman, Peter Dawson, Quatar, Rory Bremner, Rosy Runciman, Sarah Lancashire, Saudi Arabia, Savile Row, Savoy, Savoy Museum, Schlomo Moussaieff, Scott Wimsett, Sian Philips, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Stephen Jones, Sweeney Todd, Thames & Hudson, Vivienne Westwood, Waldorf Hotel London, World War II
Suits You Sir March 2011
Dear Rowley, I’ve been reading a superb new biography of all the Empresses of Rome from Livia to the fall of the empire and feel quite an affinity with the Empress Livia, Augustus’s wife. The lady allegedly poisoned most of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Rattenbury, Anne MArie Duff, BBc Royal Wedding, Budd the Shirt Maker, Burlesque, Cause Celebre, Cher, Dashing Tweeds, Deal or No Deal, Dear Rowley, Derren Brown, Emperor Augustus, Empress Livia, Fashion at Royal Ascot: Three Centuries of Thoroughbred Style, Fila, Guy Hills, Happy Fryer, Helen MIrren, Holborn Health Spa, Huntsman, James Sherwood, Jezebel, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, Louis Vuitton Guide to London 2012, Nike, Olbas Oil, Patrick Murphy, Piccadilly Arcade, Poppy Charles, Rowley, Royal wedding, Salad Days, Savile Row, Tacitus, Terence Rattigan, Tiberius, You haven't seen the last of me
Dispatches from Corfu September 2010
Dear Rowley, Don’t other peoples’ holiday photographs bore you to sobs? My heart sinks when anyone returning from foreign shores whips out a digital camera and invites you to ‘share’ their holiday vicariously with interminable (and often inept) pictures that … Continue reading
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Tagged Albania, Augustus, Britannia, Corfu, Empress Livia, Esquire, High Society, I Claudius, London Fashion Week, Mapp & Lucia, New York Times, Rothschild, Saint Stefanos, Sam Clark, Savile Row, Savoy, Smythson, Thames & Hudson, Tom Ford, Toronto, True Love