fashion

This Charming Man

  This Charming Man    ‘If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.’                                             Beau Brummell (George Bryan Brummell 1778-1840)   2020 is a year where fashion was sidelined. As the pandemic seized control of the globe, fashion was … [Read more…]

The woman who astonished Picasso

Marchesa Luisa Casati When I was doing research for my novel, Hotel du Barry, I read up on luxury European hotels in the early twentieth century. The London and Paris Ritz became my favourite hotels and I discovered the Marchesa Casati because she was a devotee of the Paris Ritz. Her nickname was ‘Medusa of … [Read more…]