Highlights of 2010

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Now, we couldn't wave goodbye to 2010 before highlighting a few of our favourite posts of the year. Over the last twelve months we have posted three hundred and something times but below are a selection of the very best...____________ Style Salvage Speaks To...Hannah Martin - We set out to learn more about her and the craft of jewellery design and what better way than to visit Hannah Martin at her studio for a cup of...

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British menswear in 2010 and beyond

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Now, I had started to embark on an epic review post and spent a few hours revising bookmarks and admiring saved images. I began reminiscing over the colour rich Jil Sander SS111 show which was held in the elaborate garden of a spectacular villa in the far hilly reaches of Florence, the dazzling lazer display at the culmination of JW Anderson's SS11 show, experiencing the making of Harris Tweed in the Outer Hebrides and...

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What Are You Doing New Years Eve?

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Happy New Year to my dear bloginistas (bloggers with style!) and friends and strangers who read this humble rag.For many years I had a business that provided decor. So when New Years Eve rolled around, I was usually engaged to decorate a party or two. Most were huge events, though some were more intimate house parties.Valorie Hart Designs The huge fabulous Lichtenstein always hangs in this office building lobby. The...

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The French House Wife Dinner

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One of my favorite fantasies is to be a French house wife. You know, live in France, shop the food markets, and cook like a French woman.I have been this way for years and years after spending time in France, and then working in a French restaurant in New York for six years. So I schooled myself to cook French dishes, to think like a French house wife at the market, and to latch onto what I perceived as a more genteel...

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Beauty 101 My Corner Store

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I am so lucky in so many ways. I love where I live: city-New Orleans; neighborhood-Garden District, just off Magazine Street where there are lots of great shops including practical ones like a small supermarket (The Breaux Mart), a well stocked Walgreens, Starbucks, a gas station with a great milk and bread store, and Beauty 101 right on my corner.Beauty 101 carries full lines of top cosmetics (Nars, Smashbox, Bare Minerals,...

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In discussion... 2010

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The desire to develop a dialogue around men's style and fashion has always been one of our key motivations to blog and this year we embarked on a new series that aimed to stoke the fires of menswear conversation. Each month, starting from May, we invited a cross section of thoughts on and around a range of subjects from the most stylish men they've ever known to the best piece of style advice they had ever heard. Over...

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Nine

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Kristin from Discover Interior Design did a great series about design resolutions. She invited several bloggers to participate. I love them all, and it was fun to see how each blogger took on the assignment. One of my favorites is by new blogger Lynda who has new the blog Focal Point (please check out Focal Point and add it to your blog list).I'm not big on making New Years resolutions, are you? But I took a stab at...

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  • Street Walking... Some words about styles: Don't you just love to walk around your city or town and look at the Christmas windows?My friend Gail Watson in New York sent me these photos of Bergdorf's windows,...
  • Season's greetings... Some words about styles: To my dear readers. It is the time of year when I reflect on all the things I am grateful for, and your support is absolutely precious. I wish you a wonderful festive...
  • The evolving passion for shoes... The tools of a craftsman...photography by Euan DenholmNow that the Christmas shopping has been completed, my thoughts have begun to wander away from my the present and...
  • In Lieu Of A Proper Thank You Note... Some words about styles: I want to send each and every one of you a personal handwritten thank you note.When that seemed impossible, I wanted to make a list of every name of every person who...
  • Night Before Christmas Don't Ra... My first experience with interior design in cyberspace was the HGTV site Rate My Space. During that time I learned alot. And I made a few pen pals and friends. For many...
  • Advent - Twenty Four... Some words about styles: Whilst nurturing some of the best menswear design talent in the capital and beyond, b store have been merging art, fashion and design seamlessly for a number of years...
  • Merry Christmas... Merry Christmas to you all! We hope the fat men in red brings you everything on your list and more whilst you enjoy some quality time with all of your family! Here's to...
  • Merry Majolica Christmas And How To... Some words about styles: This is a reprint from last year for my friends at Between Naps On The Porch for Tablescape Thursday. Hope you enjoy it the second time around.From Visual Vamp December...
  • Merry Christmas to...me... Merry Christmas to me. My gift to myself, a pair of Harris Tweed Clarks Desert Boots sitting pretty under the tree.Over the last week or two I have been running around...
  • How Much Furniture Can You Get In H... Some words about styles: Bedrooms small or large are bursting. We love to make them multi task and multi function.Once upon a time a double bed, or s set of twin beds and a night table or two,...
  • Advent - Day Twenty Three... 3939 launched as a lifestyle and retail concept located in the basement of a well loved Japanese restaurant, Life just last month. Set up by three creative friends in...
  • 413 Votes For My Favorite and My Be... Some words about styles: I am so pleased to have 413 followers. I cherish every one of you.Will you please do me a favor?If each one of you casts a vote for Jenny from My Favorite and My Best, I...
  • Who's Dog Is This?... Some words about styles: Who's dog is this?It's Martha's doggie Sharkey!Her house looks amazing for Christmas, and she shares "a peek" with 25 photos of it on The Martha Blog.The photos are of...
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  • Travel Organised... Some words about styles: Smythson of Bond Street is one of the UK's most revered luxury leather goods labels. Established in 1887 by Frank Smythson, an entrepreneur and inventor of the brand's...
  • Clipping File Roundup... I'm sure you have a pile of images you collect over time. You like them, or you make a mental note to use them in a future post you have in mind. Or sometimes the image...
  • Does Your Furniture Talk?... Some words about styles: How many times have you rearranged the furniture in a room? What makes you jump up from the couch and start to push it around? Does it whisper in your ear and say "move...
  • Hammer time... What a perfect Christmas - I've spent the last few days over indulging in the company of family and friends, which has been fabulous. Even though it is quite hot here in...
  • Una Noche de Garufa!... Some words about styles: Tonight's the Night!Una Noche de GarufaThis is the time we all come togetherto break bread, and raise a glassto the passing year, and the year ahead,to each other for...
  • What Do You The Day After Christmas... Some words about styles: It's the day after. Are you pooped? Happy? Out shopping? Relaxing?I'm at work, and I am pooped.We had a great time yesterday. We went to friends for Christmas dinner, a...
  • Tokyo... Absolutely head over heels for Tokyo!I've spent the better part of this week exploring the incredible sights, sounds and fashion this amazing city has on offer.It's all...
  • Farewell Eartha Kitt... Some words about styles: A sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died.Her career spanned...
  • Let's Get Stoned... Some words about styles: Need a little break?Snow covers the ground in many places.Housebound gardeners look through seed catalogs and at garden books and journals.I say let's get stoned! This...
  • My Christmas Card To You... Another Christmas! And another Christmas as a blogger sharing it with you!Do you remember your best Christmas? Or your worst?What age were you when you recognized what...