Wednesday, November 25, 2020
About Lisa Eldridge Lipstick
Friday, November 13, 2020
Anti-Practical Fashion Cravings
Beautiful Hong Kong: Tsim Sha Tsui, Star Ferry Building, 2018
Waiting to hear from the first Madame Vice President-Elect, on Saturday November 7, 2020.
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Lockdown in London, part deux
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Coats, Scarves, and Boots
Fashion, who has time for it?
Even if you had the physical time, for me it's the headspace that's been missing.
The pandemic and the US election have occupied every last cubic millimeter of awareness available in my skull.
I constantly feel overwhelmed or scared.
But yet it's worth thinking about clothes a little bit during all this misery. On Sunday, a mild 17 degree afternoon, we paid a visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum and I wore a Uniqlo dress (HERE), a navy leather jacket and trainers. I felt one hundred times better than I have been, or than I feel now sitting here (in old "dog walking" jeans ((I have no dog!!)) and a dodgy jumper).
There is a magic to dressing nicely - a magic that may very well be as beneficial as a hit of vitamin C. I may have said this before but I will say it again, New York stylist Allison Bornstein is really onto something when she says Fashion is Wellness.
Fashion is Wellness! And even if one has no time for it, one should make the time right now.
In a way the pandemic and our imminent London lockdown are making dressing easier. As shops and restaurants will be closing again on Thursday, we now just have to worry about the outer layers really, so for this post let's focus on coats, scarves, and boots.
I saw a beautiful woman last week in Hyde park wearing black leggings and black Nike trainers, yet her ankle length coat was full-on rich camel Max Mara deliciousness. She had tied a silk scarf at the back of her neck with a triangle of silk in the front.
So fabulous, it made me wonder why for me it's always all or nothing when I get dressed. Why not put a gorgeous coat over casual leggings? There's not really much sense in wearing clothes underneath that you would take off again the moment you got home.
Here's another option, try some of the great brogues that are out in shops.