The First Monday in May

A night at the Met?

A new film starring LA Anna Wintour? 

Oh yes, please!

Rendez-vous on April 13, 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival

The Hamishsphere: Greece is the Word

 

 

 

 

 

 Detail from John Stefanidis' house

 

 

Vogue’s International Editor at Large,

Hamish Bowles,

shares his photos from a late-summer trip to Greece.

See more of Hamish Bowles' photos here.

 

VOGUE: The September Issue

When it comes to style, and dreaming, I shall call reading VOGUE 

"Visualizing my better self". 

And that is what VOGUE is all about. 

(I know, this is the August issue, The Age Issue. Unmissable)

This is the US VOGUE September 2013 issue.

As read by

...

 Anna Wintour

Caroline Sieber, whose wedding is featured in the issue

J.Crew

Carolina Herrera (chicissima)

Aerin Lauder

My sweet Zac Posen

Reading the September issue with Estee, from Estee Lauder

To see more September Voguestagrams, visit here.

Hamish Bowles 50th 'Gatsby' party

{ my favorite photo}

Birthday boy with 'W'fashion editor Giovanna Battaglia

Hamish Bowles, International Editor at Large at Vogue, 50th birthday 

with a Great Gatsby themed dinner 

in Southampton. 

(All images by Vogue)

Fashion Friday-Glam and Curvy

Adele is one beautiful woman.

Fully beautiful, divine voice, a presence that fills the stage.

And, you know, she is curvy. And stylish. And confident. And vulnerable. And strong.

And I love her.

Are you OK with curvy?
Did you know there is a Vogue Curvy?

Well, yes there is, and it is hosted by Vogue Italia. 

How cool of the Italians!  

I used to associate wellbeing with an ideal body frame which,

being a Southern, most of the time eluded me.

In time I made peace with my body and decided to work with it, instead of against it.

This outfit is so me. I'd love to wear high heels. I think that now that I'm over 40 and my kids are grown so I don't need to run behind them, well, I do, but not so much physically,

I may give them a well deserved go!

An old favorite of mine, Marina Rinaldi, has an interesting blog 

with lovely style tips and also design and lifestyle ideas).

Rinaldi outfit some twodecades ago, a nautical top that I can still wear with a cross over linen button skirt.
I love my brown leather belted coat, wonderful trousers with perfect fit, and some great knits. all Marina Rinaldi, and perfect for every occasion.

Really beautiful women
such as

India Hicks,

Carre Otis,

Tatjana Patitz

and Kate Dillon
have graced the company's ads with the oh so true statement

"Style is not a size... it's an attitude".

Hayez, Venus, altered by Anna Utopia Giordano

Some of the most beautiful women of all times were anything but skinny.

Think about it.

Have you made your peace with your body?

Gladly linking to

my sweetest Friday habit,

  

Fashion Fridays: Women of Style-and a man

Some women do have it. Style, that is.

SJP for Vogue

{Thank you Vogue for letting us read your cover story. No wonder you are Queen of the press}

Portrait of a lady

Lee Radziwill 

(The Sartorialist)

Queen on the making.

Natural and unassuming, the Duchess of Cambridge commands the admiring attention of Southern sweetheart Reese Witherspoon and fellow onlookers.

{via the Daily Mail}

...

and the man

Greek fashion designer Angelos Bratis takes

first place in the prêt-à-porter at the seventh annual Who Is On Next competition, 

held by Italian Vogue and Alta Roma

Got to love women

...

Linking to 

Cath Kidston in Vogue

The Queen of Roses has found her way to the pages of British Vogue. She deserves every page and line of it. I love Vogue, I've read it since I was a baby, and this spread just shows how forward Vogue is, acknowledging not just the jazzy designers, but also one of those, the one, to be exact, who offers handfuls of beauty and enjoyment to the everyday lives of thousands of real life women (and men) around the world. Pride of place to Stanley. I think she'd do that herself!
A lesson to being eclectic; classic, country and modern.
The dining room/library is my favorite room of her house. Warm and serene, and inviting.

God save the Queen of all things beautiful, tender, cheerful and cozy.

Happy 15th anniversary, dear Cath, and many, many more to come!