Shiny hair, that's my life ambition

I don't watch The City but I have a bit of a style crush on Olivia Palermo and like looking at Candid pictures of her. I love the fact that she takes so much pride in her appearance, she ALWAYS looks so put together. I'm kind of over the whole Alexander Wang/Erin Wasson aesthetic, what's wrong with making a little effort now and again? I felt really riled by that kind of smug article Alexa Chung wrote a few months ago in Vogue about how being groomed is so 'not-British' and distinctly uncool. What's wrong with looking neat and pretty? Everybody looks ten times better with clean, shiny hair!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Whilst I'm not the biggest Brangelina fan, how could you NOT love this? It's brilliant, very Old Hollywood. W Magazine, July 2005

Teen Vogue November '09 - Chanel & Jourdan

I haven't bought Teen Vogue for years, but I'll definitely be getting a copy of the November Issue which features Chanel Iman and Jourdan Dunn on the cover, the pictures from the editorial are absolutely beautiful, they look so fresh and pretty! Sometimes it's nice to see models smiling rather than fashion-pouting for a change.

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Chanel Iman is one of my favourite models at the moment, I just love her face. Jourdan is especially stunning in the last photo, although sad but true I can see this issue being marred by a lot of controversy over the decision to put a pregnant, teenage model on it's cover, since it is a magazine primarily read by young girls.

In Furs

Kate Moss, Vogue Paris October 2009

I'm kind of obsessed with faux fur at the moment. Now that it's colder I've been wearing my vintage leopard faux fur coat nonstop. Everytime I visit the shops I'm more and more attracted to all the luxurious, impractical fabrics - fur, heavy sequins, beading, feathers, leather, lace...

Yvan Rodic does Paris

I did not realise until fairly recently that Yvan Rodic, aka Mr. Facehunter, has another, in my opinion better, blog in which he records all the beautiful sights and beautiful people he meets on his travels. Since I have been a francophile pretty much since the age of five, when my parents thought it would be fun (and educational!) to send me to 'Le Club Francais', I was most excited to peruse his photographs from Paris during fashion week:

Sometimes all I want to do is jump on the Eurostar, eat macarons, drink tea and people watch. I've been seriously thinking about spending next summer working in Paris.

Haus of Victor & Rolf

I think the best exhibition I've ever seen in London was last summer's 'The House of Viktor & Rolf' showcase at the Barbican. In fact, I really regret the fact that I only went once; it was that good. I really love the way Viktor & Rolf bring art and fashion together in order to make something both surreal and classically beautiful. Alongside projections on the walls of their most famous collections, there was a huge dollhouse structure filled with china dolls dressed in miniature replicas of their creations. I could have easily stood and stared all day.

This brings me nicely to Viktor & Rolf S/S '10, with which they didn't disappoint:

I have a really bad cold and I've spent my weekend watching East-End gangster films, but when I saw these gowns I literally gasped audibly - they appear to defy gravity almost. So strange, yet at the same time still quirkily wearable.

Tim Walker

Tim Walker is fast becoming one of my favourite photographers. His editorial, 'The Lady Who Fell To Earth', in this month's Vogue is simply breathtaking:

When I first saw this, on a particuarly boring train ride from Birmingham to London, it reminded me simultaneously of both The Jetsons, whom I loved when I was little, and some of my favourite photographs ever, the 1963's 'Paris Bubble' series by Melvin Sokolsky:

So eerily beautiful, I got the same feeling when I saw Walker's editorial as I did when I saw these pictures for the very first time. Magical. You can see the whole series here.