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 […]
Do You Remember Your First JEANS?
Tiny iBeheld in jeans Do you remember your first pair of jeans? These are the first pair of jeans that I can remember wearing. I think I’m about three in the picture above. The jeans and jacket were made of soft corduroy, and I think they were Wranglers. I remember that they were a soft, […]
#YouLookNice in JEANS
As part of EOTB Jeans Week, iBeheld reminisces about buying and wearing jeans in the 80s, and offers some handy tips that might help you to look in the mirror and say to yourself “Don’t #YouLookNice in your good pair of jeans!” You should:- Never listen to anyone’s negative opinion if you’ve found a style […]
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 […]
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Words I Live By
The Eye of the Beholder lives in a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world: here are some concepts by which she navigates it.
My Night with Harald Sohlberg – Painting Norway at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Last night my closest female confidante and I visited Sohlberg Late: Norwegian Nights, a four hour interactive extravaganza put on by Dulwich Picture Gallery to celebrate the Harald Sohlberg Painting Norway exhibition. This is the first major UK exhibition of Sohlberg’s work … … which makes me feel slightly better about having known nothing about […]
