The Face Magazine: Culture Shift press preview @ the National Portrait Gallery

The exhibition celebrates iconic fashion images and portraits from The Face, a trail-blazing youth culture and style magazine that has shaped the creative and cultural landscape in Britain and beyond.

📢 #NewPublication alert @intellectbooks.bsky.social International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles Issue 3:2
My interview "The challenge of the next decade" w 💚 Anna Bryher, policy lead, @labourlabel.bsky.social + fab articles & reviews incl @chicstranger.bsky.social on Future Fabrics Expo

💂🩰 The Nutcracker 🩰💂
🌟🩰 English National Ballet 🩰🌟
#FamilyTime #FirstBallet #girlsday
@chicstranger.bsky.social 💕

❤️🍞🍯🥯 #FoodOfTheGods
#FrenchToast and #CharSuiBeigel

@hoko.london #HongKongCafe with 🧡 @chicstranger.bsky.social #BrickLane

"There's no fun like work"
Harry Gordon Selfridge.

❤️ @chicstranger.bsky.social & I had so much fun @ Selfridges
on a #BTS tour for Ravensbourne MBA Fashion Business & MSc Intl Fashion Marketing students.
Enjoyed seeing #sustainability initiatives including 🐝 hives and preloved toys 💚

Aw mum thank youuu 💙💙💙 you're too kind!

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Happy happy birthday darling Babette!!
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💕💕 Truly the most wonderful daughter anyone could hope for 💕💕 @chicstranger.bsky.social

Wolf Hall is such great TV. Wow. I absolutely love this show. So glad I decided to rewatch all of season 1 before starting this new season. Gorgeous costumes and really gripping

Yesterday I went to see the phenomenal ballet MADDADDAM at the royal ballet and opera.
When I read Margaret Atwood’s dystopian epic of annihilation and survival I had no idea how on earth it could be put on stage and adapted into a ballet but the creative team blew me away.

The Nuremberg Trial by R W Cooper 📚
A fascinating read with lots of quotes and insights from the trials. I'm really interested in the trials - such a momentous historic event, the international collaboration, all the different languages, the evidence etc. I hope to plan a weekend to visit Nuremberg

💕#Barbie @chicstranger.bsky.social for The Costume Society

My review of the design museum Barbie exhibition is live over on costume society if you fancy a weekend read 💙

Link: costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/th...

❤️ #FashionFriends wonderful to host ⭐ Younus Desai Directory Fashion @ Ravensbourne University, generously sharing his experience & expertise in luxury fashion and lifestyle recruitment with my MBA Fashion & @chicstranger.bsky.social MSc International Fashion Marketing students who were captivated

I can't wait for this! Fingers crossed for some costume designs 🤞🤞

The China Gallery at Palazzo Morando, Milan.
An unexpected treat to stumble upon this Orientalist aesthetic room in a historic home. The wallpaper 😍👌

I recently read Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert 📚
Fascinating to read how cotton has defined and shaped global capitalism. It's a very detailed, well researched book spanning continents and centuries, and I found it a very informative read.

Milan cemetery with Robert Mitchum look a likes 😍

Visiting famous fashion retail destination 10corsocomo - great to see it after visiting the Shanghai and Seoul locations many years ago and super friendly retail assistants here. Love the bookstore selling out of print rare fashion books 📚

Discovering a surprisingly dry Rose wine that is actually a dark pink in Milan 🇮🇹🍷

batsford arboretum, Cotswolds 🌲🌲🌲

The best breakfast spot in London by far ✨

Delicious food, huge portions, good affordable prices and the loveliest team running @ cafe_croftonpark 🧇🧇🧇

I had the Caribbean breakfast - plantain, scrambled eggs 🍳, mackerel fish 🥑 and 🫘 delicious!