Hints and tips:
...Designer Clare Vivier, founder of accessories brand Clare V, has been crazy about tennis since high school and has collaborated on a capsule collection with tennis magazine Racquet....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...Find table dressings ready to adorn with embroidery, openwork and contrasting edging....
...Shortly after, at Harris’s suggestion, Emerson was appointed to Apollo’s board. Ultimately, Black was unable to escape the scandal....
...Five belonged to her mother, who enjoyed dressing up, while Young bought the sixth, which features “whopper” pearls, at a vintage fair. “I’d never wear one on its own,” she points out....
...If you’d rather avoid leather, try a crunched velvet skirt, like this vintage Junya Watanabe (€280, resee.com)....
...“It brought back some memories for them to see those vintage speakers,” says Daley, 32....
...In designing and dressing to please herself, she has taught others to do the same....
...I could never imagine dressing head-to-toe in any brand. I like an unexpected flash – whether it’s a print or colour or something from a different century (I wear a lot of vintage)....
...It’s a destination for high-end, investment-level kimonos, three of which feature in the V&A’s show....
...Meanwhile, the rise of gender neutral dressing continues to shape fashion....
...Easy-dressing pieces such as the silk-georgette blouses, tailored trousers and bags have also been popular, she adds....
...Eve, a pretty long silk dress with frilled V-neck (£599) had a waiting list before it launched....
...The Neues Museum is Berlin’s version of the V&A....
...I also have a penchant for vintage timepieces. What I don’t like are new watches designed to look vintage. A classy watch is a sign of potential connoisseurship, and to me that’s real power....
...But dressing like a real-life crook doesn’t seem to have quite the same appeal as styling oneself as a fictional one....
...We learn geology after the earthquake, wrote 19th-century American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson....
...In case you missed these stories: - Goldman to buy discounted private equity holdings Goldman Sachs has raised $5.5bn for its Vintage V fund to buy discounted private equity holdings – the largest fund...
..., you’re dressing for other people,” he says....
...Once hooked, Pari went everywhere in search of items, including the vintage markets in Camden and Covent Garden....
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