It felt like Monet’s water lilies took my stare and enclosed it tightly in their gentle, pink, waxy clutches.
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Catullus’ Bedspread Daisy Dunn Book Launch
There was an excitable buzz last night at the launch of Daisy Dunn’s debut books: Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet and The Poems of Catullus, at Peter Harrington Rare Books in Dover Street, Mayfair.
Among the 200+ guests pounding the shop’s floor were Ian and Victoria Hislop, Sir Simon Jenkins, Hannah Kaye, Mike Grady, Hugo Williams, Giles Milton, Suzannah Lipscomb, Michael Cockerell, Gordon Corera, Thane Prince…
London Fashion Week – The Designer Showrooms
If catwalk shows at London Fashion Week are displays of theatrical brilliance (big, dynamic, buzzing), then a look round the Designer Showrooms at Brewer Street offers a chance to observe fashion from the perspective of visitor in a museum exhibition: a calmer, more serene space for (deep) sartorial contemplation.
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V&A Shoes: Pleasure and Pain Press Day
I’ve always thought of shoes as reified works of abstract art.
Cinderella. My favourite shoe story. Cinderella – the girl whose shoes helped elevate her to a higher status. The tale of the ‘slipper test’ can in fact be traced back to 1st century Egypt.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show Celebrity Watch
It wouldn’t be a press day without celebrities. Everywhere I looked, there were celebs among blooms.
Sir Ian McKellen was interviewed by Sophie Raworth…
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015 Press Day
For me, Summer starts with the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
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Morden Hall Park
I went to Morden Hall Park ahead of the official opening of the National Trust’s first garden centre at Morden Hall.
It’s a verdant haven in the city.
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UK Blog Awards 2015
I went to the awards evening of the UK Blog Awards 2015 as I had been shortlisted in two awards.
V&A Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
“You’ve got to know the rules to break them. That’s what I’m here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.”
The words of Lee McQueen are written across the walls of the V&A’s hotly anticipated show Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, and I attended the press preview this morning to see the exhibition.
Malevich at the Tate Modern
I went back to the Tate Modern to see a black square.