LLG Health: Mayr Clinic May 13, 2012 · 0 comments So this is where I have been hanging out for the past week. The Center for Modern Mayr Medicine is on the shores of Lake Worth, absolutely one of the loveliest lakeside positions you can imagine. In summer it must be heavenly to be abl...
From Monday night, I’ll be in Singapore until the 21st May, to attend Asia Fashion Exchange, which comprises Singapore Fashion Festival , a showcase of world-class collections by top and emerging designers and labels (Including Zac Posen, Roland Mouret, Raoul, & Thierry Mugler), both ...
I am practically FIZZING with excitement about this: a collaboration between World Dance Champions Flawless and ENB (the UK’s national ballet company), fusing streetdance, acrobatics and ballet promises to be just the most amazing thing. I don’t normally write about events in advance ...
I do like a store with a sense of humour: last year I fell for Harvey Nichols’ ‘Quince William and Skate Middleton’ Royal Wedding mug, and this year they have excelled themselved with the Harvey Nichols Jubilee Lunch Box, complete with six corn flakes cakes made with Royal Warrant hol...
Day four at Viva Mayr, and I am hanging in there. The weather is glorious — in the 70s, with blue skies and scudding clouds. I had all my blood work back this morning and there’s nothing hardcore wrong with me. (Am I the only person who secretly worries there is something undiscovered...
Last night I posted about Vidal Sassoon, and this morning I woke up to a comment from a reader in America, with whom I hadn’t corresponded before. It was her story of visiting the Vidal Sassoon salon in London in the early 70s, and of meeting Vidal himself. It was so wonderful that I ...
So I’m drawing to the end of Day Three at Viva Mayr. I am pretty hungry, it has to be said. Monday and Tuesday I breezed through, but today I had a definite almost painful hunger wobble late afternoon, and had to eat two almonds I found in the bottom of my handbag. As I mentioned in m...
“If you don’t look good, we don’t look good!” At the age of 84, Vidal Sassoon has passed away. He’s one of those names that doesn’t need introducing. He changed hairdressing sure, built a global beauty empire even, but he also changed women’s lives, freeing them from the twice or even...
LLG Food: Recipe for Leek & Mushroom Orzotto with Ricotta and Fresh Green Herbs May 8, 2012 · 1 comment This couldn’t be easier, cheaper or more scrumptious. It’s a bowl of gently resisting grains, made creamy and unctuous with butter and gently sauteed onions & leeks, cooked with mus...
After some miserable Guardian reader (he told me he found me through a recommendation in the paper) took me to task on Twitter for being vacuous because I Tweet about fashion*. I thought it time to re-post something I wrote back in 2010: Fashion is a multi-millon dollar industry and, ...
When British fashion label Chinti and Parker launched in 2009, I was living in America, taking a sabbatical from the fashion world and what with constant travelling & busy-ness since then, their AW12 press day last month was the first time I got to see the collection in full and to me...
I’m always finding fascinating things to read on the internets, so I thought I’d do the odd digest of links and interesting snippets that I have come across From The New York Times: Social Media Breathes Life Into Shelved Products — How discontinued beauty products are sometimes re-is...
The post where I arrive at Viva Mayr, Austria May 6, 2012 · 0 comments How could I not be calm, when that is the view over Lake Worth (Worthensee for the German-speakers) from my balcony here at Viva Mayr? This is my second around here at Viva Mayr. The first was in October 2010, wher...
I really wasn’t quite sure what to wear for the shoot I did last week : I knew I was going to be filmed talking on camera, as well as having stills & portraits shot during the day. I also knew I was going to be standing next to two very well known — and very tall — models all day long...
oh goodness I am salivating just looking at that photograph. I mean if I said chocolate mousse layered with chocolate sponge and Madagascan vanilla cheesecake, with a chocolate topping, or maybe passion fruit curd layered with passion fruit mousse and vanilla sponge, topped with a man...
I’m very excited to announce that I will be speaking at The Lost Lectures on 31st May about Identity in the Digital Realm. Having written LLG anonymously for 3 years, I’m in a good place to look at everything that concerns online identity manipulation. From egos to alter-egos and the ...
oh JOY. I am currently an incubus of viral plague. I was a little off colour over the weekend, with the sort of anticipatory burning feeling in the throat I imagine the Twilight vampires suffer from pre-feed. I whacked a load of paracetamol before the My Wardrobe shoot on Monday after...
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...
