January sparkle

Sofia decked out in Louis Vuitton seems like a pretty good guideline for January dressing?

The campaign showcases Marc Jacobs' last collection for Louis Vuitton and features women he found most inspirational during his tenure with the fashion label, including faces such as Gisele and Edie Campbell.

New Year

New Calender... better than the one I made last year.
This one is hand printed by a family friend, who also created this print a few years ago.

A long time coming

It's been a long time coming. Almost 10 years since the boy with the Del Boy ring (see here).

A birthday and Christmas windfall allowed me to run in to a favourite Shepherd's Bush pawn shop and finally realise a teenage dream.

Suits you

A few looks from a tailoring shoot I styled at the end last year...

PETAL

I tried to give up saying 'babe' a few years ago - unfortunately I just said 'petal' instead. Christopher Kane obviously has suffered from this problem too judging from his SS14 collection

Facing the Modern

I've finally got round to seeing the Viennese portraiture exhibition at the National Gallery. I don't know a lot about the period or the main painters featured - Egon Shiele, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler - but really enjoyed the show, despite its really quite dark undertones.

Klimt, whose painting 'The Kiss' has seen a thousand mugs and placemats, painted some very beautiful portraits of dead women

Portrait of Ria Munk on her Deathbed

1912 

And one of the most moving drawings was by Egon Shiele, of his pregnant, dying wife

 

 Portrait of Edith Shiele Dying

1918

But there were also lots of portraits of beautiful women in their Viennese finery, i.e lots of sartorial inspiration

Portrait of Maria

1912

Josef Maria Auchentaller

Hermine Gallia

1914

Gustav Klimt

The show skims the surface of what preoccupied Vienna at the turn of the century - I certainly left with a long list of things to google....and it's definitely worth a visit before it closes on the 12th January.

Sequined military

An inch or so above the bed

My birthday present from West Polar, embroidered by her own fair hand.

Fishing II

A few more looks from a favourite shoot I did this year, and have already boasted about here.

Tropical

What I will probably end up wearing to my Tropical themed Christmas party.

More is More

Big fan of this really annoyingly titled ( 'too much of a good thing is superb') story shot by Richard Burbridge for ID. 

Inspired styling is by Charlotte Collet.

Golden Hour

Images from Laurence von Thomas' series, 'If You Leave.'

Gone Fishing

 A few of my favourite looks from a recent shoot I styled. Fisherman chic and all that.

Photographs by Jonny Mallen.

Grayson vs Cara

Cara

Grayson

Wonder if potter Grayson Perry was an inspiration for Sarah Richardson, who styled Cara Delevingne for this month's ID Magazine.... See more here.

Luxe Concrete

 

Just a casual walk along the Westway in gauze and pvc. 

Photographs by Marcus Palmqvist for Rodeo Magazine

Jamie's rings

Silver thorns, onyx and a glass eye. A good selection in my book.

Slick of Colour

Morris Louis, Gamma Tau,1960

Clyfford Still, PH- 131, 1951

A slick of colour this morning in grey central London as I had a look round Hauser & Wirth on Saville Row.

Both paintings are part of an exhibition showing the collection of Reinhard Onnasch and spanning the London, Mayfair and Piccadilly galleries. Ends 14th December 2013.

Back to the Future

1920s Striped platform sandals from the V&A looking very Spring Summer 2014

McDean Beauty Pageant

Shot for Vogue Italia, Februrary 2013

Layers

Another post about layering, this one not as colourful as the last.