[FashionRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
madame.lefigaro.fr It's a supplement that came with today's French newspaper Le Figaro This issue was guest edited by Stefano Pilati Quick Review Portfolio Photographers : Inez Van Lamsweerde &...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Desired by many and beloved by elegant celebrities, the Hermès scarf is an iconic piece of fashion history. But how the deuce are you meant to tie it? Many designers strive to close the gap between fashion and art, but few succeed. With the creation of its famous scarf in 1937, the House of Hermès invented wearable art at one brilliantly simple stroke. Develop the finest screen-printing...
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
An undated photo of a young Catherine Deneuve dressed in something that looks like pyjamas. Found on the blog with the long name.
Sparks In Electrical Jelly (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
not exactly the Marlboro man I recently watched two films from the late 60s, Wonderwall and the recently re-discovered Separation, the film written by and starring Jane Arden and directed by Jack Bond. The films are poles apart in tone, Wonderwall being a quintessential piece of period whimsy and Separation a film in which the swinging sixties collides with dislocated film editing and theatre of the...
Gardeners Tips (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Orange was the colour of the 1970’s but gardens seemed to reject this colour as too gaudy and fit only for psychedelic record sleeves. Times have now changed and hot borders are fashionable with an exciting choice of plants including those from the Poppy family. Oriental poppies are big and blousy whilst the strong orange [...]
SquareOldSoul (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Have you seen this wonderful movie?? It's gorgeous, romantic, heartbreaking- just see it! Catherine Deneuve's character has fantastic style. Bright pastels, French chic trenches, scarves, hair tied up with bows... This gingham dress from bloomingleopold etsy shop is just perfect for the look. It could easily be worn on a spring day out, or for a Dorothy or Alice costume next Halloween. I need a trench...
Radical Vixen (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Belle de Jour has come out of the anonymity closet and revealed herself as Dr Brooke Magnanti. From her blog: Now I'm not anonymous... "I suppose I always thought that the part of my life I wrote about would fade away, that I could stick it in a box and move on. Totally separate it from the ‘real [...]
France24 (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The employers of a 34-year-old scientist who wrote a racy best-selling book about being a prostitute on Monday defended her after she outed herself as the author "Belle de Jour". Dr. Brooke Magnanti, who works for The Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health, at the weekend revealed herself to be the woman behind the nom de plume -- which is the title of a famous 1960s French film...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The identity of Belle de Jour, the woman who wrote of her experiences as a London escort in a series of blogs and books which became the TV…
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
SHE was the original sex blogger, but her identity was one of UK publishing's biggest mysteries.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
SHE was the original sex blogger, but her identity was one of UK publishing's biggest mysteries.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
THE employers of a research scientist who unmasked herself as a call girl turned bestselling author are standing by her.
Pussy Talk (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
So Belle has finally outed herself. Wow. A research scientist, it turns out. Whoda thunkit. We always knew she had a brain, of course, and we imagined she must be drop-dead gorgeous, but apparently, she is not only a superbrain, she possesses a "curvy" UK size 8 figure and a face reminiscent from some angles of Catherine Deneuve. Surprise surprise. Anyway, you go, grrl. May that magic realist...
io9 (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
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James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
"There's got to be a morning after," crooned Maureen McGovern in The Poseidon Adventure, extending musical hope to all those waterlogged souls clinging to debris on the cruel, bobbing ocean we call life. And because there's got to be a...
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