FONTAINE DE VAUCLUSE

I strongly recommend you go.

''I was tap-dancing in Time Square''

ALL MY FAVOURITE PLACES

YOU GOT ME THINKIN'

... of summer, and I want it NOW

THE WEDDING {1}: DELICATESSE PRINTANIERE

So guess what? The wedding season is very nearly almost upon us, and I thought I'd prepare a series of themed weddings to get those brides' creative juices going. This first one is for a spring wedding, with delicate food, fresh textures and quirky details. Enjoy!

Here is a simple, sophisticated, feminine dress. I especially love the feather detailing at the waist and the juxtaposition of see-through and opaque!

 {image via coco+kelley)

 Love these exuberant centre pieces!

 Some feminine, jewelled hair ornament and hair down - simple and gorgeous.

To top it off, some quirky shoes like these Valentino specimens.

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Scotland

Here are my favourite pictures from our little trip to Edinburgh & St Andrews (sorry this is so late). I'm afraid I really don't have that many from St Andrews, but here you go:

I'm afraid I'm quite proud of this shot - an icon of the Empire on which the sun never sets.

The Hub - Edinburgh Festival HQ

Royal Mile

Loved this little cocktail menu!

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Songs of Innocence and Experience

'Innnocence and beauty have no enemy but time' - W.B. Yeats

She is the face that has launched a thousand fervent epistles, who has us all talking - Thylane Blondeau, soft-mouthed, level-gazed ten-year-old. 

And yet, I would like to present you with something that veers in the opposite direction, and that I loved. It depicts what Styleite calls 'geriatric porn' - it even featured in the same issue as Thylane's satirical accessories shoot, in the Vogue Paris of December 2010. Like clockwork, both created a huge amount of controversy.

'I am tired of the cult of youth' - Tom Ford

We are bombarded nowadays with images of teens dressed (and posing) as the adults which they can pass for. That Thylane poses the ways she does does not surprise me, although it is distressing. She presents the physique of many models already in the industry - the non-existent chest, the poky hips and the bird-like frame. If we get uptight about her, we have to follow up and get rid of most of the catwalkers already on the scene.

By putting an elderly pair in the viewfinder, Ford has done something truly controversial, and beautiful. That two septuagenarians should advertise haute joaillerie appears perfectly fitting to me: a diamond is forever, after all.

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