Hints and tips:
...Niarchos’s own Dryada landscapes and majestic skies are conjured from gold and semi-precious stones, some framed with earthy or rose-tinted diamonds....
...I’d defy any skin tone not to be enlivened by the Rose Hermès blusher in Rose Pommette (the range also comes with the chicest lip balms called Rosy Lip Enhancers for ultimate French-girl understatement)....
...In the 1970s, Alice Waters pioneered farm-to-table at Chez Panisse in California; Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray of the River Cafe reimagined Italian food in London in an office canteen; more recently Asma Khan...
...(This year, Eugénie’s palace — which was sold off to become the Hôtel du Palais in the 1880s — reopened as a Hyatt hotel.)...
...According to the curators, it was also here that the 20-year-old Van Gogh fell in love for the first time, with Eugenie Loyer, the 19-year-old daughter of his landlady....
...Lodha dressed guests in custom-made white dresses and art-directed every detail, from the psychedelic roses to the dinner plates and the mirror work....
...Rebecca Rose was a guest of SJ Villas (sjvillas.co.uk). One week at Ocean View costs from €8,000 for up to 12 people....
...Over coffee with the young jeweller Eugenie Niarchos, I admire a golden coin around her neck....
...Many of the designs are as noteworthy as the personalities who wore them, for example a platinum and diamond rose clip brooch created for Princess Margaret in 1938....
...Meanwhile, glimpsed among the dazzling violets, camellias and roses that fill the Paris atelier of Joel Arthur Rosenthal (known as JAR), one will see delicate bouquets of lily-of-the-valley flower heads...
...It was in those days, in fact, that the Empress Eugénie launched [Charles Frederick] Worth, who is considered the first true [fashion] designer.”...
...Ms Middleton and her two siblings attended Marlborough, a top fee-paying school where Princess Eugenie of York, William’s cousin, was also a pupil....
...Or the strange flower/feather contraption nested on Chelsy Davy’s hair, or the flying saucer on Princess Eugenie?...
...Charline Grand’s Eugénie is demure, then gorgeously perverted....
...Buy roses, but make it 50 long-stemmed black ones. Or join the flower of the month club, so every four weeks the recipient gets a vase overflowing with lilacs or lilies of the valley or french tulips....
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