Elizabeth Taylor's fabulous headpieces

Photography by Richard Avedon
I've been thinking about fabulous headwear a lot this week and Elizabeth Taylor sprung to mind.  Above is my favourite photograph of her, taken in 1964 and the feather headpiece is absolutely stunning.
Hollywood costume designers made some wonderful pieces for her films.  I loved the headdress in Cleopatra.  The actress often wore very extravagant headpieces when

Thursday quotes - a few of my favourites

"Your English style will no doubt put all the gentlemen to bed.I speak figuratively of course"
John Gielgud(1904-2000)


Photography by Cecil Beaton
"The trouble with most English women is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation and do not want to attract attention"
Edith Sitwell(1887-1964)



"One day I was walking down Bond Street thinking how impeccably

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part fifty

"Be a first rate version of yourselfinstead of a second rate version of somebody else"
Judy Garland(1922-1969)



"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary"
Cecil Beaton(1904-1980)



"To get back my youth I would do anything in the

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty six

Coco Chanel and Cecil Beaton, 1937
"A fashion that doesn't reach the streets, is not a fashion"
Coco Chanel(1883-1971)



"Indeed who is there that walks London streets, but can point out a half-dozen men riding by him splendidly, while he is on foot, courted by fashion, denying themselves nothing, and living on who knows what?"
William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)


"Fashion is what one

Pictures I love

Chloe Sevigny
This picture was taken for a feature on Chloe Sevigny's New York apartment in House and Garden in 2007.  I think the matching wallpaper and bedding are gorgeous and I like the effect of the wallpaper on the ceiling too.

Wallpaper body art by Emma Hack

Photography by Glen LuchfordFreja Beha Erichsen
I particularly like Toile du Jouy designs and this blue is wonderful.  Toile