Posted on May 10th, 2008 by Rossella Frigerio
There is no better way to soak up the spring sunshine than lazing in the park with the coolness of the fresh grass under your feet and a good book in your hands. My Saturday afternoon in Hyde Park literally flew by as I became utterly engrossed within Nell Freudenberger’s sparkling novel, The Dissident, which explores the collision between East and West, between the artistic revolution [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Lady Fra
As the weather here in Italy worsens (rain, rain and more rain), and seeing that I totally dislike going out in the rain (my hair just can’t bear the dampness and tends to get quite frizzy -ugh), I’ve been spending some time reading international newspapers and looking at two of the most famous book charts [...]
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Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Rossella Frigerio
Celebrities: our fascination with their other-worldly lives is incessant, from the colour of their latest ‘it-bags’ perched upon their elbows, to the clothes they dress their little ones in. Now, we can find out what their most intimate living spaces look like, whether it be country-style or boho-contemporary. Filled with scrumptiously glossy photographs, Elle Decor So Chic [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2008 by E. Nina Rothe
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.” Coco Chanel.
For the baby girls in your life or even the little girl hidden inside all of us, I’d like to suggest a great book, “Different Like Coco”. Drawn and written by Elizabeth Matthews and published by Candlewick Press, [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Rossella Frigerio
Dame Vivienne Westwood’s Opus is set to break records as one of the largest fashion books ever published. Showcasing 97 never-seen-before polaroids of the British fashion industry’s most renowned faces (taken with the world’s largest Polaroid camera), this incredible work is prefaced by Westwood’s personal ‘Active Resistance to Propaganda’ manifesto.
With only 900 pieces in circulation [...]
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