Hints and tips:
...My style icon is Iris Apfel. She shows that the older you are, the more fabulous you can look. Her bold clothing and jewellery make her a true individual....
...In Knightsbridge, the Hershesons Blow Dry Bar at Harvey Nichols is a close contender....
...The company sells online and through Whole Foods, Ocado, Harrods and Harvey Nichols. The Soho House chain of members’ clubs serves it in its hotels and restaurants....
...Photographs: John Glover/Alamy; RM Floral/Alamy; Gillian Plummer/Gap Gardens; Rob Whitworth/Alamy; Clive Nichols/Gap Gardens...
...“It’s hard to find a fragrance because there are so many,” says perfumer Azzi Glasser, whose profiling service at Harvey Nichols in London poses questions of loves, hates and favourite designers....
...Iris (irisdubai.com) is my favourite bar for a casual drink with girlfriends, and I favour the rooftop at the Four Seasons (fourseasons.com/dubaijb)....
...Try Alexander McQueen’s tie-dye jumper (Harvey Nichols, £675, left) with leather jeans (Iris & Ink’s leggings, £398, are great) or rolled-up boyfriend jeans (Gap, £49.99) and flat sandals....
...Oddly, I have no flowers on the usual blue-flowered winter Iris unguicularis as yet. It is never very predictable and, for once, I agree with that catty old garden writer Beverley Nichols....
...But he also has an address book of top-flight British contacts - David Hare, Richard Eyre, Patrick Marber and Stephen Daldry - that has taken him into film co-production on Eyre’s Iris (Judi Dench as Iris...
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