Just dropping in to say a big heartfelt thank you to the lovely Jo and Kim at Desire to Inspire for listing The Library of Design as one of their "100 Blogs of 2011", alongside great blogs such as Vogue Living and one of my favourites, Field Notes – Your Guide to the Great Indoors.Many...
Inspirational Moments of 2011, Part 2
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MORE OF THIS YEAR'S MOST INSPIRATIONAL MOMENTS{Top: The Return of Glamour – refer to December entry below}SEPTEMBER – ADELE AND WOODY MAKE US FALL IN LOVE WITH PARIS ALL OVER AGAINIt was the simplest of music videos; a singer wandering the deserted streets of Paris on a winter's afternoon. But Adele's Someone...
Inspirational Moments of 2011, Part 1
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A quick little post of inspiration to tide you over until the New Year. This year may have been a challenging year for many, but there was still a lot of inspiration and creativity around, it seems. Which just goes to show that inspiration and creativity can be found anywhere, even in a tough landscape....
The Art of French Style
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As some of you lovely readers will know, I've spent the last few months writing, photographing and illustrating a book about Chanel and the art of French style called How To Live A Beautiful Life: Chanel and The Art of French Style. The book is still in production, and I'm actually rewriting...
10 Lovely Things About 2011
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It's always easy to look back on a year and notice the difficulties and the down sides. But it's far better to look back and recall the bright bits and the highlights. So for this post, I'd like to forget about the woeful and the horrible and instead list some of the lovely things that have happened...