Chanel and Strawberries

Beautiful.

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As another decade passes (are we really settling with the noughties?!), look to Coco Chanel and celebrate the New Year with many, many glasses of bubbles.

Here's to a fabulous evening!

See you in 2010...x

Image courtesy of Svenska Mobler

Top Off

Monday evening and my Paris hen do has been and gone, leaving me with a hoarse voice and wonderful memories. The girls did me proud! In the past 48 hours i've flicked through racks of vintage Balmain, Chanel and Chloé and experienced the best show i've ever and possibly will ever see at the Lido on the Champs-Élysées.

Showgirls, cabaret and prancing ponies aplenty, there was sequins, beading, trouser suits reminiscent of Yves Saint Laurent circa 1990 and topless Parisian burlesque beauties! Lithe and impeccably turned out, the breast-baring beauties were high up on the table discussions with much adoration.

So with this in mind and while flicking through Alice in Wardrobe Wonderland, i wanted to do a post about the wonder of femininity and fashion and especially how nudity can be portrayed tastefully and polar opposite to a tabloid page 3.

Would you agree?

The shots below are from Vogue Australia and then Kate Moss who champions the top off to perfection.

Holiday!

Having just touched down from a mini-break to sunny Spain, my post-holiday blues were reignited by In Style's dedicated bikini mini-feature in their August issue. Missoni's chevron-striped string triangle two-piece is the salt to my sartorial wounds, while the signature monochrome string-piece from Chanel, as modelled by Stella Tennant circa 1996, just fills me with swimwear envy!

Roll on November's honeymoon, more on that later...