Sophia Loren once said of her beauty, “Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.” It’s a fabulous quote from a fabulous woman, one whose life embodies a particularly Italian approach to glamor and beauty. The product of a true rag to riches fairytale, Loren grew up penniless and went on to become one of the …

My very chic mother always said, “Start as you plan to continue”, and in her senior years, she has never let the standard fall.  In fact, with age she has become even more confident of her character and expressive of her individuality. In that spirit, we celebrate author and blogger, Ari Seth Cohan’s second book …

“Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world. …Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.“ So said Irving Penn, one of America’s most celebrated photographers, …

 Irving Penn’s photography is showed in it’s largest retrospective yet. Following his death in 1997 aged 92, the Irving Penn Foundation has donated 100 pieces of his work to join the Smithsonian’s already 140 piece strong collection. The result will be an exhibition of both well known and never seen before works that reflect the …

Where did you start when it came to designing Spring 2016? We took a tour around the Mediterranean, stopping off at fabulous island destinations such as Capri, Mykonos and Ibiza on our way. We were inspired by the laid back yet extremely polished glamour of the party side of island life. It’s a collection that …

Barbara Tfank, as a designer, is best described through the women she dresses,  independent, and chic, women who possess their own definitive style, and who appreciate that Barbara’s art enhances and celebrates their own individuality. Perhaps that is why First Lady Michelle Obama chose to wear Tfank’s dress when meeting Queen Elizabeth II in 2011, and …

We have always been drawn to the individuality of three distinctive and iconic royal women, HM The Queen, Princess Margaret and Princess Diana. Having recently featured Princess Margaret’s legendary home, the ‘Mustique’ in our Dames in their Drawing Room series, an exhibition ‘Fashion Rules Restyled’ at Kensington Palace now takes us into the wardrobes of …

There is a place in fashion – somewhere that exists in the eye of a perfect storm of elegance and originality, in which style statements as distinctive as they are beautiful are made. It’s a way of dressing that celebrates the individual, requiring and displaying a sense of very personal confidence and chic entirely particular …

Last Look: Jacqueline de Ribes The Art of Style The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition ends February 21, 2016 Photo courtesy of the MET Museum

There are princesses, and then there’s Her Highness Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur, one of the most glamorous, exotic and formidable icons of the last century.  A Maharani, a politician, a legendary beauty and a fashion icon, hers was a life of many layers, each one lived amidst the changing tides of the most …