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Category Archives: Fashion
Zelda + Lavender’s Blue
A Night on the Tiles All dressed up and somewhere to go. Sometimes, all a girl wants to do is party.
Mary Martin London + Behind the Mask + Blood Sweat + Tears Collections
Hinterland Sound The fashion pictures. Urban chic in the country. Military cool in the city. Mary Martin wears versatility on her sleeve. “It was all very grand and very mad,” Nancy Mitford once purred.
Mary Martin London + Behind the Mask Collection
Hugging at the Venice Ball Only Mary Martin London would conjure up haute couture hoodies with matching face masks in an increasingly byzantine world, introducing evanescent light into the Stygian darkness. Worthy of a Rizzoli monograph, Behind the Mask is … Continue reading
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Tagged behind the mask, fauda, gucci, lavender, mary martin fashion designer, mary martin london, rizzoli, stuart blakley
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Carmen dell’Orefice + Claridge’s Hotel London
Model Behaviour Lavender’s Blue caught up with the inimitably monocled magnificently manicured Carmen dell’Orefice when she recently stayed in a Diane von Furstenberg designed hotel suite (where else?) in London. She was fresh – very fresh indeed – off the … Continue reading
Mary Martin London + Fashion Fusion Citation of Honour
Just Like That It is just an ordinary Wednesday night at Mary Martin’s. Poland’s top model Katie and fellow runway success Yasmin from Sierra Leone and Lebanon are swapping notes and tips and dresses and jewellery. Dring dring. The phone … Continue reading
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The House of Lavender’s Blue + Filmography
The Tapestry of Dawn “Your house is so cinematic!” Film Director Stephan Pierre Mitchell “This is a museum! When you wake up that’s how the house makes you feel.” Model Yasmin Jamaal “Creativity is creativity.” CEO Big Deal Films Dhanny … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Design, Fashion, Luxury, Town Houses
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Lavender’s Blue + Rue de Rivoli Paris
A Boulevard of Dreams and Things “We met at the little bar across the place from Dior’s called the Fontaine-de-something and had one – two – three Champagne cocktails on my expense account. Then we had lunch.” Shamrocks and Unicorns, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Fashion, Hotels, Luxury, People, Restaurants, Town Houses
Tagged 228 rue de rivoli, alain ducasse, elisabeth visoanska, hotel meurice calais, lavender's blue, le meurice paris, lord kilbracken, nairns paris, philippe starck, shamrocks and unicorns, stuart blakley, versailles
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Hôtel Charles V + St Paul Le Marais Paris
De Temps en Temps Continuing the bookending theme of a year well spent: Easter in George V, Christmas in Charles V. The former, westward upstream of Notre Dame; the latter, eastward downstream. One, extrovert art deco; the other, discreet Swedish … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Fashion, Hotels, Luxury, People
Tagged charles the wise, european house of photography, george v hotel, hotel charles v, hotel daumont, hotel de sens, hotel henault de cantobre, hotel st pol, ian nairn, la male deffeene, lavender's blue, nico thibault francioni, notre dame, river seine, rue st antoine, st paul, st paul le marais paris, stuart blakley
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World Boutique Hotel Awards 2019 +
The Four Score Nations Robin Sheppard, Co Founder of Bespoke Hotels, calls it, “A star studded, must attend, essential date in the world’s perpetual calendar.” The ninth World Boutique Hotel Awards takes place, as ever, in Merchant Taylors’ Hall in … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Hotels, Luxury, People, Restaurants
Tagged 2019 world boutique hotel awards, antonelli puglisi, awarta nusa dua resort and villas in bali, bradley goian, director schlomo gabbai, elisabeth visoanska, eroline lamontagne, fond doux plantation and resort st lucia, founder eco luxury, francisco seresina, laura scampini proprietor tenuta montemagno resort, lavender's blue, lyton lamontagne, maureen ohara cnn, merchant taylors hall city of london, mestyle garage hotel bangkok, ninth world boutique hotel awards, phatthamon sangratkanjanasin, robin sheppard co founder bespoke hotels, silent pool gin, stuart blakley, tenuta montemagno relais and wines, villa sostaga gargano, wild retreat vancouver island, worshipful company of merchant taylors, writer cheryl king
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La Divine Comédie Demeure Privée + Spa Avignon
A Sense of Theatre A private paradise. A secret world. A hidden kingdom. Cloistered glory. The very essence of exclusivity. If luxury could be bottled… heavenly scent. A multiple epiphanic realisation of complete beauty and tranquillity. Not even a Gallic … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Country Houses, Design, Fashion, Hotels, Luxury, People
Tagged amaury de villoutreys, avignon, colette gigi, colette the cat, dante, donald tusk president of the european council, frances hodgson burnett the secret garden, gaston, gilles jauffret, la divine comedie demeure privee spa, lavender's blue, min hogg founding editor of the world of interiors, provence, rue des bains, rue sainte catherine, rue saluces, simone, stuart blakley, theatre du chene noir, theatre golovine, thedule
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Mary Martin London + DejaVu + Fashion
Working It Babes, every summer, just when the mercury’s rising, Mary Martin London is the star of Africa Fashion Week London and it’s not just her hotter than hot clothes that steal the show. She’s famous for mixing her own … Continue reading
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Tagged afrobeats, article 10 the royal collection, balenciaga, d j shack, dejavu, fendi, givenchy, gucci, lavender's blue, m i raw recordings, mary martin london fashion designer, oluwande ayodeji oluwaga, prada, seven wallace, stuart blakley, tony portelli
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Mary Martin London + Blood Sweat + Tears
The Men’s Collection Getting the dynamic and then some. A prophetess. A field of energy. In pursuit of knowledge not glory. A divine intervention. She is so that we are.
Africa Fashion Week London 2019 + Models
A Day at the Face Track Amidst the pandemonium that is the fashion show backstage, it’s impossible not to every so often glimpse the beautifully suffused light seeping through the stained glass windows, like a carpet of crushed blue sapphires. … Continue reading
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Tagged africa fashion week london 2019, freemasons hall covent garden, lavender's blue, stuart blakley
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Africa Fashion Week London 2019 + Mary Martin London
More Than Many Sparrows “Mary Martin London stole the 5pm show with a colourful menswear collection.” Africa Fashion Week London official spokesperson Multi award winning fashion designer Mary Martin took the capital by storm at this year’s Africa Fashion Week … Continue reading
