Monthly Archives: October 2010
Happy (and Stylish) Hallowe’en
My favourite screen sorceress is also one of my favourite actresses and beauty icons – the wonderful Veronica Lake, she of the “peek-a-boo” hair and cheeky, knowing smile.. In 1942, she starred in I Married a Witch, playing an impish … Continue reading
The Fragrant Mary Greenwell
As I wrote in my beauty journal, renowned make-up artist Mary Greenwell was here in Glasgow last week to show off Plum, the perfume she has just launched. Over lunch, she invited questions – but, really, there was only one … Continue reading
Style on Film: Now, Voyager
The onset of winter always makes me think of the fashions of the 1940s, perhaps because some of my favourite 1940s films are set at Christmas-time. We’re not quite at Christmas yet, so the stylish 1940s film I’m celebrating today … Continue reading
Unravelling the Fabric of Chanel
Journalist and author Justine Picardie was in Edinburgh last week to launch Coco Chanel – The Legend and the Life (Harper Collins), and to discuss the iconic French designer’s secret love affair with Scotland. I caught up with … Continue reading
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My Week in Beauty
SUNDAY My week got off to a glamorous start, with a trip to the cinema to ogle Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and the beautiful Deborah Kerr (left, and sadly no relation) in the 1953 melodrama From Here to … Continue reading
