CUT MATTERS, THEN AND NOW! Also cut served as indicators of one’s station in medieval society. I am not sure what the Duke’s contemporaries would have thought of Thierry Mugler’s design. I guess, the Duke of Berry who ran into…
View PostThe Duke of BERRY Days are getting cooler, harvest is looming and approaching the time to slip here and then into somewhat warmer cloths. Well, no denial it is September. September is also what is depicted at this extraordinary piece…
View PostIN KENYA, WHEN YOU HEAR HOOFBEATS BEHIND YOU, EXPECT TO SEE A ZEBRA “Zebra” is shorthand for an aphorism coined in the late 1940s by a medical professor who instructed his Maryland-based medical interns: “When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don’t…
View PostTHE BIG FIVE The film ‘Out of Africa’ is based loosely on the 1937 autobiographical book with the same title written by Isak Dinesen, which is the pseudonym of the Danish author of Karen Blixen. Meryl Streep plays this wealthy…
View PostOn the Wild Side of Life Today’s movie-goers may not feel the electricity that powered a melodrama about a Danish woman who struggled to hold on to, both, the English man and the Kenyan land she loved and could not…
View Post“ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH SUNSHINE AND A LITTLE PINK” Lilly Pulitzer Pink Floral Dress Styled with Colour Matching High Heel Pumps This striking silhouette floral dress is crafted from a beautiful rose pink and black coloured lightweight fabric that conforms easily…
View PostMy Little Frog Frock Christian Dior supposedly said that “a little black frock coat is essential to a women’s wardrobe”. If so, Gianni Versace, who adored vivid colours would have chimed in: “and please one in frog green as well…
View PostDiamond or Rhombus Symmetry A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND –Monroe Meets Merkel Imagine for a moment the late American actress Marilyn Monroe and the current German Chancellor Angela Merkel exchanging thoughts over what to take for a girl’s best friend, perhaps…
View PostARE YOU READY, BOOTS? START WALKIN‘ … Multicoloured Leggings, Black Leather Knee-High Boots, Vivid Colour Jacket and Black Leather Bag Boots to Style with Leggings The boots I am showing this week have a very elegant form, the heel is…
View PostSilk Shirt , Black Wool Mini Skirt and BURGUNDY Suede Leather Calf Boots A new week with new boots, number 3, this time in a new colour, BURGUNDY and in suede leather. Seven League Boots If a great pair of…
View PostSilk Flower Midi Skirt, Black Leather Jacket, Structured Leather Calf Boots and Matching Leather Clutch This week I am going to show you what one can wear with this incredibly beautiful knee-high leather boots that are also called calf boots.…
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