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Inspiration: Pauline Boty
Do you ever read something interesting that sticks in your mind and suddenly pops up everywhere you look? Photo by Lewis Morley Long story short, I first read about Pauline Boty in this book. A few...
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The Reading List: Celia Birtwell
Celia Birtwell isn’t a relevatory memoir, nor is it a rollicking trip through one of the most dynamic periods in British design. And thank God for that. Instead, Celia Birtwell and fashion writer...
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Inspiration: French Women
Is it just me or is November a little, well, flumpish? You know, it gets dark at six and it’s cold and rainy and it seems that nothing is very inspiring. I bet French women don’t have that problem....
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The Reading List: Deborah Turbeville, The Fashion Pictures
Deborah Turbeville is an enigmatic woman who doesn’t fit well within the typical jobbing fashion photographer mould. Her photographs are heavy in their sombreness, atmospherically frayed and aged and...
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The Reading List – Lillian Bassman: Lingerie
Lillian Bassman summed up herself and her work as “completely tied-up with softness, fragility and the personal problems of a feminine world”. In this retrospective work of her seminal lingerie work,...
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Ghost World Screencapped
Having a post adolescent existential crisis? I know I am. Watching Ghost World always makes me feel a bit better, even though ultimately, it’s quite a depressing film. I don’t know what it is that...
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Licentiate Column 10/05/12: Tomboys Forever
Tomboys are vastly, miserably underrated. In a world where more credence is put on celebrities in bikinis and the best way to conceal the decidedly unfeminine flaws of body hair and non-fruity smells,...
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The Reading List: Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland
If you’re a big Diana Vreeland fan, you’ll notice that books by and on the famous Vogue editor are often… interesting. Not bad interesting, but unconventional. They’re often a bit disjointed, they run...
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The Reading List – Muses: Women Who Inspire
Muses: Women Who Inspire is a lavish coffee table book, published by Flammarion, all about the romantic muse. ‘Romance’ is definitely the watchword – almost all of the muses in this book were engaged...
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Things to read #4
It’s my birthday today, hooray! My family are over in London and we are eating our way through the city. And the sun is shining and I’m going to go for brunch soon, so I’m throwing up a few things...
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