100% PVC

I love love love my new wallet (especially because it flashes my Wills and Kate commemorative Oyster) but I can't wait for the bleeding ugly silver writing to rub off.

LAZY SUNDAY

Rosa content in her new Comptoir de Cotonniers jacket and vintage auberjeans enjoying the February sun.

LOWER LIDS

Long neglected lower lids getting some attention...
I'm definitely going to try out the Givenchy half sequin look.

WELSH REFRESH

Ah hears the rattlin ay boatils in thir crates so ah goes tae the windae n pills back the curtain. It's Terry's juice lorry n ah kin hear um giein it the patter. Jist when ah think aboot shoutin oot the windae or gaun doon fir a blether, ah see thit eh's talkin tae Maggie Orr n this other lassie. That's just brutal; so ah dinnae think ah'll bother. No that ah've nowt against Maggie, she's awright, but ah hud this shutin match wi her auld man the other week.

The tosser eywis comes back pished wi ehs wife fae the boozer, n they huv a big fight in the street. It keeps muh Ma awake. Ma auld man'll no dae nowt, so ah goes tae the door n hus a word.

POWERFUL HAND DRIERS

I read i-D pretty religiously in my teens and submitted this image when they asked for contributions (through Myspace no less) on the subject of the human body... at the time I was extremely pleased with this photo, as I take a lot of pleasure making my chubby hands ripple under powerful hand driers.

For those interested, this particularly strong one is at the Troubadour. I didn't hear anything from them at the time, but found an old copy at a friend's house recently and it made me grin, mostly at how chuffed my eighteen year old self would have been.

"Bend, flex, jump, stretch and vogue, this month i-Dspacers celebrate the body beautiful."

For an earlier post about i-D *click here*

HENRIETTA MORAES

In light of the recent sale of Francis Bacon's portrait of Henrietta Moraes (left, 1963), I would strongly recommend anyone interested in the foibles of Britain's most successful post-war artists to read Moraes' self-penned book 'Henrietta'. She paints a picture at odds with the prevalent representation of late fifties/sixties London dominated by pictures of grubby children frolicking in East End terraces and leggy blondes on Carnaby Street.

As well as describing sitting for Bacon and Freud (Girl in a Blanket, 1953), Moraes evokes the world of Soho's eccentric denizens such as photographer John Deakin and the fantastically named Muriel Belcher (landlady of The Colony Room).

FROW DUO

It has long been posited that the front row is far more interesting than the show. Although the jury is undoubtedly still out on that one, I can't help but post my favourite frow duo Bill Nighy and Anna Wintour...
Above at Nicole Farhi SS12 and below Mulberry SS12.

HELENA BONHAM CARTER

I saw Helena Bonham Carter charging along outside the Ritz last week. Actually wow,

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

                             

Christopher Bailey and Yinka Shonibare seem to be on the same page...