This is the fourth year running that my-wardrobe has supported Fashion Targets Breast Cancer, the flagship fashion campaign of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, a charity dedicated to transforming and saving lives through finding the causes of breast cancer and improving detection. The join...
I cannot describe the sheer revolting-ness of my barnet by Saturday morning. On Thursday my hair had been primped and preened all day on and off by the wonderful Maarit Neimala and her team and, whilst it was a marvel and just how I like it for shoots, hair with that much styling prod...
Today marks the start of MS Awareness 2012. I first ran this post back in 2008, when the blog was little more than a year old. So I hope you’ll forgive the re-run four years later, as I suspect this will be the first time of reading for many of you. Not only has my sister been diagnos...
I have just received an update from Baby HQ, which I am running here for the benefit of all our mutual friends who read LLG and who will be delighted to hear the news: “Isabel’s paediatrician was amazed by her strength — she can already lift her head, which apparently doesn’t normally...
I was cross-eyed with jetlag and fatigue after the flight from San Francisco but I do remember very, very clearly looping it on the back of my luggage trolley at Heathrow Terminal One as I arrived in the baggage reclaim. My memories stop there, although I am guessing it was still on t...
The economy, the weather and what is being described politically as ‘the feel bad factor’: there has never been a better time to stay at home, switch off the television and read a good book. Given that over 60,000 copies have sold in the past week, it’s a fair bet that many are curren...
Oh my gosh so hard to chose they are all so amazing, but if I have to chose three: 1) The Orange Faster’s by Mark Fast — if they are good enough for Kylie they are good enough to bring a little skip in my step (and look particularly resilient to the wonderful British spring weather) 2...
(My partners in crime & I being filmed walking through Shoreditch.) I’m starting to feel like I have pushed it slightly too far on the travel/no sleep front. I’ve powered through a fifteen hour working day today and felt fine but, now I am finally tucked up in my bed, my long weekend ...
Douglas or Doogie Howser MD, began life in Essex. He moved to pastures new about 3 years ago when the owner’s ADD child was old enough to use his tail as a lasso, forcing him to put a personal ad in The Sun asking to be taken away. Douglas frequents East London’s most loveliest park o...
But I did risk a single snatched SLR photo before I hid my camera under the table (as opposed to a quick cameraphone snap) of my first course at Fitzbillies for several reasons. A) I knew I wouldn’t get thrown out by an irate restaurateur because Alison Wright & Tim Hayward, Fitzbilli...
LLG Digest: From London to California And back to London for the Whistles & Penguin Books dinner Getting Ready for The Oliviers 2012 with MasterCard UK: Part Two. The make up. LLG Travels: A long weekend in Northern California LLG Travels: Calistoga, Wine Country, California for Jill ...
Can’t quite believe I am back in London already. California seems very far away from this wet, windy and astonishingly cold city. Brrrrrrrr. It was 85F in Napa on Sunday as I zoomed about in my rented 550. I flew from San Francisco at 730pm last night, and managed to snag three seats ...
Last week I gave you the run down of what I wore to The Olivier Awards with MasterCard. Today it’s all about the makeup I do for events, (in response to lots of questions about this.) To start with, before I go crazy with the colour cosmetics, I prep my dry skin with a serum, a moistu...
LLG Travels: A long weekend in Northern California April 23, 2012 · 0 comments I woke up on Friday morning in San Francisco to the kind of heat that makes the horizon shimmer and the sight of lemon trees in the garden feel like the most natural thing in the world. After a delayed flig...
Kate Moss was fifteen when she shot the story, styled by Melanie Ward, which launched her career. The photographs were taken on Camber Sands in England, a traditional seaside resort, and were astonishing for their raw, verité feel; an antidote to the glossy Vogue supermodels. The imag...
LLG Travels: Calistoga, Wine Country, California for Jill & Michael’s Wedding April 21, 2012 · 0 comments Gotta love a big sunhat, an Old Navy blouse, some vintage Gucci sunglasses and an Instagram filter for their happy effect in turning a rather hot, red faced me by the pool at Indi...
LLG in London: What I got up to last weekend April 20, 2012 · 0 comments Last weekend which, whilst a whirlwind, was also full of some proper loveliness with friends. I’ve been really bad about making time to see anyone who isn’t directly connected with work, and I keep making resolut...
Instead of my more usual breakfast of yoghurt & berries, this morning was all about mini pains au chocolat and shoes. As I’m sure you’ll agree, a distinct improvement on my regular morning activity. The pastries and footwear overload were part of ALDO’s press breakfast to launch their...
Getting Ready for The Oliviers 2012 with MasterCard UK April 20, 2012 · 0 comments As you may know, I happily hopped off to The Oliver Awards with MasterCard on Sunday night as part of their Priceless London programme, and I thought I’d give you a run down of what I wore and how I got...
Almost exactly a year ago I was asked to take part in a stylist’s challenge as part of Oxfam’s excellent pop-up shop at Selfridge’s London . For models, we were loaned the volunteers in the store. My girl was Katie B, an 18yr old fashi0n student who impressed me so much with her can d...
On Maundy Thursday night I drove my sister and the dog back to our mother’s for the long Easter Weekend (we get Friday and the Monday off in the UK). We did have a lovely time. On Good Friday I made a proper Full English for us all, washed down with strong Nespressos , as we were off ...
There really are some experiences that money can’t buy, and attending an awards ceremony like The Oliviers 2012 with MasterCard is certainly one of them. But thanks to MasterCard UK and their Priceless London programme, I was one of this year’s attendees. It really is one of those fan...
Speedo Aquabeat Underwater 1GB MP3 Player LLG Fashion: Christian Dior Haute Couture to show in Shanghai, China LLG in London: Attending Matins At Westminster Abbey for Mothering Sunday Behind the scenes on the Sainsbury’s LLG recipe shoot for the May issue Vintage British W story: Jas...
A little bit of this, a little bit of that… April 15, 2012 · 0 comments oof. WHAT a weekend. I’ve tried, as per, to jam in way too much and consequently am heading into next week flaked out, not re-energised. There were errands with my sister, some advanced beautification, lunch, an a...
On our last day in Cornwall we weren’t quite sure what to expect. We knew from our itinerary that we were visiting Tregothnan, the home of the United Kingdom’s only tea plantation, and that we were to have a tour of the gardens. What we weren’t expecting was a glorious walk around a m...
Lauren had been talking about Easter chocolate on Radio2 when she was standing in for Dermot, & I tweeted her a photo of my Lindt bunny sitting on my car’s dash. But Lauren was more excited by the battered old C90 sticking out my car’s cassette deck in the bottom of the photo. When I ...
She has glorious bridal wear, cocktail frocks, & day dresses. Many of the dress fabrics are bespoke to Suzannah, and most of them are Italian. Her prints are all developed in house, using vintage fabrics as a base, and then digitally printed. Nearly everything is made in London, and s...
Everything about the beach is wonderful. I perched up on a handy bit of rock n the shade of the cliff, with that ravishing view at top in front of me — it was knocking seventy in the full glare of the sun and I go tomato soon as look as a blue sky, and threw endless bits of shingle fo...
Sassy, & Blah in particular, were the legendary east London club nights of my twenties and early thirties. They were a family affair, open to all, & DJd by good friends, and were always happy, happy nights out. We even had Wedding Blah, when Dave & Jene got hitched. After the ceremony...
When I was in my early teens at boarding school in the late ‘80s I was obsessed with fashion. And not Topshop fashion. I read Vogue as if it were my Bible, and subscribed to British W over its short-lived career. W in the UK was a colour newspaper, not a glossy magazine and, whilst my...
