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The Little Black Dress. November 2012.
Dear Rowley, You know one of my favourite phrases? There’s nothing new in the zoo. It was that flippant phrase that made me call time on my catwalking carrer. No, darling, I was never a runway model though Raf Simons … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s fashion, 1930s Bias Cut, Alexa Chung, Alexander McQueen, Anda Rowland, Ark, Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Balenciaga, Balmain, Bloomsbury Towers, Breakfast at Tiffany, Broadway, Chanel, Chicago, Dear Rowley, Dior, Doris Day, Gilda, Golden Age Hollywood, Halston, Hollywood, Hypo-Mania, Independent on Sunday, James Cagney, James Sherwood, Jean Harlow, John Galliano, Jolly Good Show Savile Row, Judy Garland, Karl Lagerfeld, Lauren Bacall, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, London Collections: Men, Love Me or Leave Me, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Snyder, Michael Kors, Moe the Gimp, Mount Ararat, Oscar, Poppy Charles, Prosecco, Put the Blame on Mame, Raf Simons, Rita Hayworth, Ruth Etting, Saint Laurent, Savile Row, Savile Row Open Day, Some Like it Hot, Style Police, Ten Cents a Dance, Vionnet, Ziegfeld Follies
Everybody Loves Oscar. February 2012.
Dear Rowley, Weren’t you absolutely fascinated by Angelina Jolie’s posture on the red carpet at the Oscars this year? You know as well as I do that when a designer slits a skirt up to your knickers it is only … Continue reading
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Tagged 84th Oscars, Anderson & Sheppard, Bill Nighy, Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt Tuxedo, Chablis, Cock Robin, Colin Firth Tom Ford, Dear Rowley, Gwyneth Paltrow, Henry Poole & Co, James Sherwood, Joan Crawford, Joan of Arc, La Boheme, Lady Macbeth, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, London. Angelina Jolie, Men's Fashion Oscars, Meryl Streep, Mimi, Oscar, Oscars, Paul Smith, Pharrell Williams, Susan Farmer, Tom Ford, Vuitton Guide London 2013
Off With Her Head. July 2011.
Dear Rowley, The most extraordinary thing. I was tripping through Bloomsbury Square when I chanced upon a couple eating al-fresco on the grass – not dissimilar to Manet’ Dejuner sur l’herbe – wearing T-shirts bearing the legend ‘Very personal trainer’. … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiral Lord Nelson, Anne Boleyn, Anne of the Thousand Days, Big Ben, Black MIschief, Booker Prize, Churchill, Daniel Radcliffe, Dear Rowley, Dejuner sur l'herbe, Ed Milliband, Edward VII, Emperor of Azania, Eric, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh Black MIschief, Ewan McGregor, Foreign Office, Fox Cigars, Franco's, Geneveve Bujold, George V, Globe Theatre, Gran Canaria, Henry VIII, James Sherwood, Jane Seymour, Jonathan Reece-Myers, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, Manet, Muscular Liberalism, Nancy Mitford, Napoleon III, Natalie Dormer, Nick Clegg, Oscar, Oscar Wilde, P G Wodehouse, Palace of Westminster, Richard Burton, Savile Row, Squeezed Middle, St James's Street, Tallulah Bankhead, Telegraph, The Tudors, Tower of London, Trafalgar Hotel roof terrace, Trafalgar Square, Very Personal Trainer, Virgin Active, Wolf Hall