Things that caught my eye this week

Fashion designer Danielle Scutt's stunning new jewellery collection
My favourite is the necklace and belt above which I think are fabulous.  The collection is a collaboration with Freedom at Top Shop which means they shouldn't be expensive.  They go in store on 1st April.  Danielle cites her inspiration for the collection as Frida Kahlo, Peggy Guggenheim and Prevost's novel Manon Lescaut.  The

The House of Halston

"You're only as good as the people you dress"
Halston(1932-1990)
I'm a huge fan of Halston.  I only have one of his dresses but I've always loved the fabrics and style of his designs.  They've inspired a lot of my wardrobe choices as have the fabulous women he's dressed.  This post started because I found a picture of him in his house in New York and it just grew as I found more and more

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty five

Photography by Alfred Eisenstaedt
"Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number.But also what makes women ask for the name of your dressmaker"
Lilly Dache(1898-1989)



"I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual.  Beauty and feminity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured"
Marilyn Monroe(

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty

"I feel fine and comfortable with myself,but not because I'm beautiful"
Monica Bellucci(b. 1964)




"Beauty opened all the doors;it got me things I didn't even know I wanted,and things I certainly didn't deserve"
Janice Dickinson(b. 1955)




"I have been very happy, very rich,very beautiful, much adulated,very famous and very unhappy"
Brigitte Bardot(b. 1934)




"I love Los Angeles.  I love