Pictures I love

Photography by Mario TestinoNatalia Vodianova


Photography by Paola KudackiRaquel Zimmermann


Photography by Steven MeiselMadonna


Photography by Stephane CardinaleJessica Stam for Louis Vuitton


Photography by Polly BorlandAlison Goldfrapp and girl in a rabbit mask


Photography by Ron GalellaHugh Hefner  - Mr Playboy bunny



"There's a girl who works with us, Lucy, she's on the design

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty two

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversionsor variety in company, if she can be amused by an author in her closet"
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu(1689-1762)

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refugefrom almost all of life's miseries"
W. Somerset Maugham(1874-1975)



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Happy Birthday Madonna

Here's Madonna arriving at her Birthday party at Shoreditch House in the East End this evening.  A few friends have gone.  I wonder who her dress is by?  I'll look forward to seeing all the pictures tomorrow.

Early Madonna

Stylist Maripol and Madonna.  I love this polaroid of her





Madonna, 1979


I'm sorting out my iPod at last and have started to download all my favourite songs.  It's a lovely sunny day and I've been jumping around the house and garden to early Madonna hits this morning.  Here are some of her lesser known pictures.  I was a huge fan of hers in the Eighties and Nineties.  I haven't bought

Madonna's Manhattan apartment

Photography by Steven MeiselMadonna for Vogue Italia, 1991
I love to look at people's houses and how they put things together. I have a huge collection of World of Interiors, House and Garden and Elle Decoration. I love any books on interiors and seeing great design from any period, but I especially adore antiques. I think they made things with a quality you rarely see these days.
It would be

Madisyn as Madonna by Ellen von Unwerth

American model Madisyn Ritland looks fabulous as Madonna in this shoot by the wonderful Ellen von Unwerth.  Called Like A Virgin, it was shot in 2008 for Art + Commerce.  Images courtesy of Fashion Gone Rogue.

Early Madonna was my favourite.  I grew up with tunes like Lucky Star, Borderline, Holiday and Into the Groove.  I loved Desperately Seeking Susan and when Vogue came out  I played it on