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Fleur De Guerre: a life in vintage
I was recently ogling Rita Hayworth in the film Gilda and whilst transfixed I found myself nostalgically longing for a more elegant and work-shy world. In our present ‘nose to the grindstone’ and...
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It’s time for tea with Johnny Vercoutre
Just the other day I was standing like a sardine on a Central Line rush hour train with my cumbersome camera bag reflecting what a ridiculous time for me to be travelling when the unexpected happened:...
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An evening of Burlesque with Emerald Fontaine and Tallulah Tempest
It’s Halloween night and the streets of Hoxton are sprawling with screeching fantastical freaks, like escaped lunatics over-dosed on sugar they’re running through Old Street as if on one crazed...
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Bedtime Stories at 40 Winks
“Sunlight, moonlight, a confusion of pawprints. All silent, all still. Midnight, the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves’ birthday; the door of the solstice stands wide open; let them...
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Virginia Bates: The Lives and Loves of a National Treasure
Beautiful. Fearless. Idiosyncratic. Exquisite. Unshrinkable. Audacious. Lionhearted. Levelheaded. Presuming. Proud. I could go on but these are just a few words I would use to describe Virginia Bates,...
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A Christmas Card of London, with Dennis Severs’ house, Wilton’s Music Hall &...
This week I revisit some of my favourite stories of the year for a festive fancy of fun and flamboyance: the lavish Vintage Christmas show at Wilton’s Music Hall, complete with all your holiday...
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The distinguished and dauntless Mr.Carter
Most people assimilate theatre being beneath a roof, dressing up as a special treat and fairytales as something of a childhood past time. But David Carter is not most people. These are, in fact, the...
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A puff and a pint with the Handlebar Club
When taken into careful consideration, the Albanian dictionary proclaims 27 different ways in which to say the word ‘moustache’. Not quite to the magnitude and depth of eloquence that the Eskimos have...
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The Chap Olympiad 2011
With nearly as much Pimms as there was rain, you would be mistaken for thinking that the moods might be dampened a tad. Far from it, for this year’s Olympiad saw the attire as sharp as the cheating was...
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The Chap protest of Savile Row
It was a very near miss of several cases of whiplash, for the vision of refined, tweed-clad, rabble-rousers last month on a most grey and uninspiring Monday morning on Savile Row, armed with only...
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