Sometimes people ask me where on earth I find all the work for these posts. To me, that’s the easy part. And although it’s sometimes time consuming, there’s a finite amount of places I have to check out. Like doing a big jigsaw. The difficult bit is this bit. What to say about it? Sometimes I have nothing to say. Putting ‘Check out these bangers!’ before a hundred ads seems lazy. But what if I didn’t know the person. NeverRead more
Posts tagged: #Phyliss Robinson
PODCAST: Mary Warlick
I’ve just finished watching ‘Coco Chanel Unbuttoned’. Not only did I discover Coco wasn’t her real name (Gabrielle), I discovered her philosophy. Pre-Coco, high end fashion used the finest, most expensive materials, like silk, lace and satin – a visual display of one’s wealth. Coco chose instead, the basic materials she’d grown up with, poor and in an orphanage. Like jersey, previously used to make men’s underwear, she used it to make dresses. She did the same with the tough,Read more