Two FREE Celebrations of Illustration at the Institut Français!
WHAT ..? 50 Years of Gallimard Jeunesse sees ten of the children’s publisher’s star illustrators creating work to illustrate one of the ten rights that make up Daniel Pennac’s brilliant book/manifesto: The Rights of the Reader. This FREE exhibition is showing at WHERE ..? BIBLIOTHÈQUE QUENTIN BLAKE 32 HARRINGTON ROAD SOUTH KENSINGTON LONDON SW7 2DX […]
Scenthusiasm pop-up in Hammersmith!
WHAT ..? Scenthusiasm -the online perfume school created by Sarah McCartney of 4160 Tuesdays perfume – have a pop-up store in Hammersmith. WHERE ..? LIVAT (formerly King Street Mall) King St London W6 9HW WHEN ..? from Monday 21st March – Sunday 3rd April 2022 Hours are: Monday – Saturday 12 – 7PM Sunday 12 […]
EOTB ABBA WEEK! Our Voyage Ends With Brand New ABBA Art from Marc McGreevy
ABBA – 6 by Marc McGreevy For this final part of ABBA WEEK, Marc Mcgreevy gives us a celebration of blues, indigos and violets in this portrait of the four members of ABBA performing onstage during ABBA: The Tour. To quote wikipedia: ‘It was on this tour that Fältskog and Lyngstad wore the iconic blue, […]
EOTB ABBA WEEK! Two Portraits of ABBA by Marc McGreevy
ABBA -3 by Marc McGreevy I’ve previously teased you with these glimpses of the Marc McGreevy ABBA portraits: first in a carousel, and then with snapshots of the gift Marc sent me at Christmas – my very own Marc McGreevy x ABBA mug! So I thought it was about time you had the chance to […]
EOTB ABBA Week! Fashion Special! with illustrations by Marc McGreevy
Dressing like ABBA doesn’t have to be a costume party. It can simply be a celebration of great clothes. Dressing like ABBA is easy. You just wear clothes that suggest the very best of everyday mid seventies to early eighties high street fashion. Dressing like ABBA means feeling comfortably adult and at ease in your […]
Nancy Glowinski on (and in) JEANS
Why Is It So Hard to Find a Good Pair of Jeans? It’s very satisfying to see that Gen Z has rejected skinny jeans, opting instead for loose fitting dungarees. Such a rejection of millennial style. And I’m right there with them. It’s like when grandchildren and grandparents gang up on the parents. Except that […]
Drawings of Alek Wek by Marc McGreevy
These new drawings of Alek Wek by artist and illustrator Marc McGreevy were sent to me by Marc, quite out of the blue, with an invitation to publish them here if I felt that they fitted, and that I had something to say about them. Gentle Reader, I accepted that invitation with alacrity! Marc McGreevy’s […]
Burbank Glamour with Bésame Cosmetics
Our LA correspondent finds old-school glamour in modern brand Bésame
