Baselworld 2011 | About Faces

Baselworld 2011, the yearly watch fair concluding this week in Switzerland, took a walk down memory lane, revisiting classic models and vintage styles, and making the most of the return to heritage trend pervasive in the global fashion and accessory markets these days. This post-recession looking back to move forward strategy, which was also a [...]

Sunday, March 27th, 2011

bareMinerals new line + giveaway

Its here!!! The folks that changed some paradigms on how women use and apply makeup are now introducing another beauty revolution in skincare. Yup, Bare Escentuals has now created a bareMinerals skincare line of cleansers, moisturizers and treatments that are filled with their patent-pending RareMinerals ActiveSoil Complex. The ActiveSoil Complex is extracted from virgin soil [...]

Sunday, March 27th, 2011

Slow on the Bespoke Uptake

A personalised leather envelope and card holder from Belgian label Delvaux and a grey leather Dunhill evelope with my initials are the sort of things that make me mighty happy these days.  It’s the sort of happiness that is slightly frightening as I know that I’m approaching that age when sturdy, well-made things (that also [...]

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

Stuff n’ Dump

>> Example illustrating why I’m a stuff n’ dumper when it comes to my bags?  Even when I’m carrying seemingly non-scruffy bags – Mulberry, Miu Miu etc – my methods of stuffing them to the brim, flinging them about, dumping them on the floor means that in Moscow, where in well-to-do restaurants, the waiters actually [...]

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Prom 2011: For the drama of the big dance, we’ll help you dress and play the part

Share close Google Buzz Digg Stumble Upon Fark Email Print Enlarge Imagine your name on the marquee outside the hottest venue in town, in the brightest of lights, above the words “For one night only!” Dramatic? Absolutely. But this is prom, the night you take center stage and bring down the house. However you cast [...]

Monday, March 21st, 2011

The Swimsuit Cover? Runs in the Family

Last Friday afternoon, at Blue Ribbon Sushi on Sullivan Street in SoHo, two ebullient female editors of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue were seated at a table, about to order a lot of raw fish. With them was a 30-year-old photographer named Bjorn Iooss (thats pronounced YOOOS). He was drinking a Sapporo, dressed in a [...]

Monday, March 21st, 2011