Lee Bouvier Radziwill - The original Pippa

Vale Lee.

This was a post published in 2013 but am reposting now.
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The New York Times is running a fantastic  piece on Lee Radziwill.

There are several notable contributors to this article: 

Nicky Haslam, Sofia Coppola, Peter Beard, etc. 

It reads more like a proper in depth Vanity Fair article.

It's meaty and will go great with your Saturday brunch.

It also features a video interview with Sofia Coppola speaking to her about topics as diverse as her relationship with Peter Beard to her childhood - Onassis was off limits though.

You can click here for the link.

Fabulous cover of the T Magazine.

I didn't know I was such a fan until this picture.

Cute as a button - both of them.

Cecil Beaton anything is ok with me.

 A modern Matisse-y / Cecil Beaton / Vogue composition.

As you do.

Dior Fashion Exhibition - Designer of Dreams at the V&A

The exhibition opens Saturday, February 2nd and is on until July.

This is for those who do not plan to come to London for the show.

For better pictures, please do try going on relevant hashtags on IG and of course the link I have on the first sentence on this post.

 The exhibition was in a new section of the museum and 

it was the first time I saw any exhibition there.

 I never ever get sick of the Dior silhouette.

 This is a famous dress but it was only in the exhibit that 

I learned that the embroidery was straw!

 Galliano is lauded but apart from his sculptural quality, 
I just can't see how his designs were flattering with the exception of one outfit coming up below.

 I call these three dress the Dictators' wives section.

 Love the red outfit.

 This room had some of my favourite dresses but also the room was decorated with paper cut wisteria and other flowers.

 These pics do not do this feather dress any justice.

These three dresses were my favourite of the exhibit.

The left on is the iconic lily of the valley dress and the right ensemble is the only piece by Galliano I love. The sculpted jacket and the purple dress makes up for the other pieces by him I don't really enjoy.

January 2018 Miscellaneous Recap

Hello!

Still can't reply to any comments so if I don't reply it is Google's fault.

But I thought I should try to post regardless.

I feel that they are doing this to phase blogging out...

But those who know me know that I love a theory of any kind, conspiracy or not.

Isn't this perfect because it is so true?

Self explanatory.

 I posted on IG but I know that many are not on IG.

I would have bought these but

 I already have too much stuff I don't use.

I am really enjoying this book because you can just read a few pages about a specific color: reason why it is called what it is respectively, source, and history.

This is a train carriage placed on top of a building.

Guys really do have it easier when it comes to clothes.

 Look at the lining choices for a suit my brother is getting made.

Millie was so well behaved while my brother disappeared into a special room where they scanned his body with software instead  of someone measuring his elbow to his wrist etc.

Did I tell you that the pool where I stayed in while 

I went skiing in Flaine did not allow swimming shorts? 

My brother was told to buy speedos. 

He refused so he wasn't allowed back in the pool!

I would suggest Flaine as a ski destination.

I was originally reluctant to go somewhere new.

I like where I usually go because I have my routine.

 But my brother and his friend said Flaine had good off piste and as I was only a dabbler ski bunny that they would get precedence of choosing.

Flaine is a purpose built ski/hiking town that was a project of a very wealthy couple.

Most of the buildings have the 1960's architectural bent mostly designed by Marcel Breuer.

 I went on a tour on a poor ski day.
I found this open kitchen which still is very avant grade.

 There were a few listed fireplaces dispersed around the town.

Happy new year!

Testing...

Will i ever able to blog again????

Hope this works because I have been not been able to comment nor post.

In any case

Happy new year!

Frieze London 2018 - Farcical.

I went to the very first Frieze when the concept of pop up and art fairs were still novel.

I enjoyed my first Frieze and the last few years I missed out because I was always in Asia -off topic best time to go to East Asia!

I was quite excited to go and the English autumn was just perfect the day I went.

It is located in Regent's Park and they had an external installation of sculptures.

Not much to share but this was the only thing I liked because it reminds me of the billboards in small towns and neighbourhoods in the States.

I will cut to the chase.

These were probably one of the few pieces I liked.

I only went to the main Frieze - not the Frieze masters which was another pavilion.

But most of the work was worse than this painting below.

Doesn't it look like the rough draft for the Pink Floyd album?

This frog ballerina is just horrid.
No composition, no technique, no color blocking.
Not even a statement regardless of political leaning which is boring but at least there is a naivety in those works.
Just crap.

Summer 2018 and this and that

Hi all!

I swear this is the 5th time I have tried to post.

Mercury retrograde-tastic.

I am still on IG mostly for the memes.

They are on point.
I thought I didn't like botox and then now i prefer that to these filters.

Went to Berlin and it was one of the most disappointing cities ( personally of course).
How utterly not as cool as it was meant to be.
Yet it had none of the German efficiency so I don't see the point.

By the third day, 
my friends said,
"What is the point of seeing this city when we don't like it?
Let's just hang by the pool."

I replied,
"I don't think I am coming back unless there is a proper reason so I wanted to see as much as Berlin as possible."

I did take pictures but not worth fighting Mercury retrograde any longer.

Oddly, one thing I realised is that I am over boutique hotels with the exception of about 5 in the world I still love.

But I absolutely loved the anonymity and lounges and not having to make polite conversation with the hotel owners.

I went to a friend's place near Genoa in July and I was intending to go back because the food there is fantastic but the bridge collapsed.
It is too sad to return for the moment.


Speaking of Mercury retrograde...

I have been studying astrology.

Not sun signs but deeper.

I am concentrating on Vedic aka Hindu astrology but do plan on learning the tropical school which is more dominant in the west.

I am finding it utterly fascinating.

It is a subject where you learn something and 
can test it on charts of people I know.

Plus Vedic philosophy through the guise of astrology delves 
into philosophy and all matters of life.

It is coming up to 21 years 
to the death anniversary of Princess Diana.

This came up in class.

( Yes I am taking proper classes. )

Princess Diana was known to frequent astrologers, tarot readers, and spiritualists.

She was quite broad in her spiritual interests and was rumoured to convert to Catholicism before her untimely death as well.

But we all know that she wrote letters for ol' butler Paul Burrell 
to keep where she writes that 
she fears she will be killed in a car accident.

That fear didn't just come out of thin air.

Vedic astrologers predicted this.

I can't share my class video and to be frank it will go over your head unless you are an astrology student.

But I did find a blog post unrelated to my course that writes it down.

http://horasarvam.blogspot.com/2013/07/princess-of-wales-dianas-horoscope-was.html?m=1

Just a post script.

I don't even know if I believe in all this stuff but the coincidences are uncanny.

Anyway, just wanted to pop in to say hi.

Sorry for the lack of pictures.

Hope summer is treating you well xx

PS if anyone wants to be my guinea pig for astrology,
you can give me your time
( must be as accurate as possible) 
and date and place of birth
 so I can figure out your chart for free of course as I am still learning.

Name is not needed so you can send me privately!

email is couldshouldawoulda9@gmail.com

Beginnings of Summer 2018 Miscellaneous

This weekend was a few days of misunderstandings and clashes.

Apparently, this summer is meant to be rather volatile and heated in more ways than one.

Going by this past weekend, I am going to try and lay low.

Our summer mews party was fun as usual 

but there was a bit of drama.

I am going to sage the street later tonight 

so no one confirms I am nuts.

(You see what I did there?)

London has been so hot the past week and you can really tell the heat wave bc the parks looks parched.  

I really wish London had better outdoor pools at times like this.

 I love the Connaught.

 Everything about it and their dosas for breakfast.

 Mexican for me is a summer food.

 But I can get carried away with the margaritas - salt and ice please.

Been doing all kinds of study this year with no plans to stop.

 It is like my second wind of university but 

this time it is purely for the love of learning 

rather than gaining a certificate.

You know how some things just look good but taste terrible?

 This cake was like an Eton Mess inside and so delicious.

You know what I really dislike?

Bad facials plus those entrapment freebies 

like beauty treatments at department stores 

which are only veils to bombard you with sales pitches 

while you have goo on your face.

 My brother gave me this gag gift.

I couldn't even feign gratitude for this Clarins gift voucher.

They all laughed at lunch at my reaction.

My real present came later.

Phew.

 Avignon where I went to for a quick Provencal getaway has some world class museums that are practically empty.

 Really like the town more and more.

 In fact, I think that from here on end I will most likely go at the beginning of summer to say hello to the three towns I like.

 Here is a beautiful bathroom in Arles.

 While others diet for the summer, I do the reverse. 

 I eat at the pool.

Why do I do this!? 

I blame my sugar levels.

Vicious circle...

 

I love a terrazzo floor.

Whatever you do on top just seems to work even better.

 Inadvertently went to a pool party as the hotel 

I was staying at was hosting a disco.

Discovering new music ( for me - love Tyga now by the way), 

figuring out who is gay ( for my friend), 

seeing which people are getting pushed into the pool and 

observing desperados try to pick up was entertaining.

Plus the party ended at 8 pm. 

So my style!

 Nimes has a museum of Roman antiquities.

I would recommend that people interested in gladiators and the like go visit Nimes instead of Rome.

 Reason being, Rome has so much that the museums are stuffed but not curated.

In Nimes, there is a lot of explanation and information about the objects.

 Also Nimes, has a lot of Roman artefacts of museum quality.

 I also found a home decor store just by the 

Temple of Venus in Nimes.

 Old school and they had items that aren't easily seen on the high street or online stores.

 I bought a straw cushion but now I don't know where to put it.

 Apparently, Nimes isn't that popular but I still love it.

 It has one of my favourite restaurants.

 It looks like Lisa Vanderpump copied the decor.

 Food is ridiculously simple and good.

I love art as you all know but I am ambivalent about this structure in the middle of the Serpentine. 

 It just jars the greenery and the artifical colors are not what I need living in an urban area.

I want more natural green.

 This is the annual temporary Serpentine museum structure.

 It is what it is.

 This was a part of the floor where it went from to wet floor.

 I did a quick walk through but will go back to "feel" it.

 Still thinking of Masterpiece.

 I just love walking around the stalls.

 I did a few kilometers in there.

 Imagine only have a drawing like this to remember your loved ones if they went away on a trip?