Heads Up

Posted on 02/17/2013 by Slim Paley

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Cameos are cool again.

Just thought I’d mention it, in case you hadn’t noticed.

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…and Now

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Victoria Hardstone via Fourtane

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Old photo cameo

Amedeo on Lexington Ave. in NYC is the place to buy cool cameos.

Screen Shot 2013-02-17 at 9.46.04 PM They even customize. A loved one, or perhaps a favourite pet, or just beautiful initials.

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Screen Shot 2013-02-17 at 9.42.34 PM These are not your Grannie’s cameos

618_uktv_downton_abbey_s02e05_7 BTW, shouldn’t the Dowager have a cameo on her collar?!

890A1716 A most beautiful head in the Palace of Versailles

marlon-brando-julius-caesar and the most beautiful head in movies. No contest.

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Heads are in-house too.

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The trick is to keep a cool head.

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and don’t let it get all stuffy.

Axel Vervoordt

Lanvin

Go big or go home.

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Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed….

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Just don’t lose your head (Sorry)

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Hey-How about that last episode tonight?

What the… :(

Still, we must soldier on. We’re British after all (caught up in the show much??)

Try to have a good week all the same.

(Buttons top photo, my own. Green desk photo via Pinterest)

Countdown Abbey

Posted on 01/06/2013 by Slim Paley

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Darlings-I thought the day would simply never arrive and yet all at once it is here.

The season 3 premiere of Downton Abbey tonight at 9pm est. Will you be watching??

Certainly my husband and I will be tuning in (he loves it just as much as I do )

In honour of the occasion I’m sharing my very, very most favourite vintage dress with you.

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890A5851 Vintage seed pearl and rhinestone cross by Stanley Hagler

I pull this out whenever I feel I’ve plummeted too far into Ugg-ville.

890A5873 Believe it or not, with the right jewellery, a belt, and a black or indigo slip beneath it becomes quite boho.

Lady Sybil would definitely approve.

Lady Sybil; “Golly, my corset’s tight. Anna, would you be an angel and loosen it a bit?”

Lady Edith; “The start of the slippery slope”

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Mr. Carson and the Earl of Grantham discussing the issue of Lady Sybil wearing Uggs under her tea gowns

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I can’t wait to chat.

Will you be following along on Twitter? I will-so much fun! Don’t you wish we were watching it with Martyn Bullard from M.D.D.’s?!

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Oh, PS. For new readers or just in case you missed it, you might like this post;

“A Night to Remember-100 Years Later”

Casual Sparkle

Posted on 12/22/2012 by Slim Paley

Firstly, apologies to my legion of male readers- but this post is pretty much exclusively for the Laaydies It’s a real quickie though. I’ll be back tomorrow with a little Christmas wrapping and decor. Because, God knows, I like to leave … Continue reading →

Fully Saturated

Posted on 12/20/2012 by Slim Paley

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Good Afternoon. Yes, we’re starting off the afternoon talking about vodka.

Tis The Season, after all…

Ever since these bottles jumped out at me in a European magazine last year, I’ve had my eye out for them.

Try to convince me packaging isn’t everything

890A5264 ‘Unique Edition’ Absolut vodka $27.95 and Christmas decorations from Target

A twist on the candle or a bottle of wine as a hostess gift, they’re fun at your cocktails station, especially this time of year.

You do have a cocktail station don’t you?!

Naturally I had to get my little fluorescent shot beaker from Paris into the pic. (filled with chartreuse, not vodka) Unfortunately the contents is looking decidedly more yellow than fluoro-green in these photos.

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Screen Shot 2012-11-27 at 3.37.27 PM Christian Dior

I cannot tell a lie. This was originally going to be two posts; one on fluorescents and one on opalescents but just LOOK at the time- It’s the 20th already!

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Edmundo Castillo

1mb9 I’m liking this artist Matthew Brandt

“‘taste tests in color’ in which the artist silk screened picturesque american landscapes
by using a food item in place of traditional ink such as ketchup or mole sauce. in this particular ‘taste test’, the artist recreates the image of vernal falls of
yosemite national park into several multi-layered prints made permanent by food or household objects such as toothpaste, kool-aid, airhead candies,
or pharmecutical pills”

I’m presuming the silk screened are sprayed with some sort of preservative.

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tumblr_m2gsm038Z91qax0bvo1_1280 I know pink hair is getting old and so am I, but I’d like some. I really would.

20120903-063019 I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Serendipity (I think…I couldn’t really read that word. It might say ‘sensuality’ but I prefer serendipity) … I am vivid colours. etc.

I am tired of reading the tiny print.

63261569736941348_NZAtCnZl_f artist Kitty Janney

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AVF-Fearless-Neon-Acrylic-Tray-Stack-6x4 I love these desk organisers but I’m way beyond help in that department. My husband always looks at my desk, shakes his head and says “I can’t believe you’re a Virgo”

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tumblr_lllhnihc5t1qg8ng8o1_400 this chair even has “Absolut Love” written on it. Freaky man.

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Sophia Webster

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record it all on this extremely desirable Leica X2 designed by Sir Paul Smith.

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I still have lots to share in the next few days so I very well might be doubling down again.

Peace Out for now

xoxo

Loco For Rococo

Posted on 11/08/2012 by Slim Paley

Well, just as I predicted (genius that I am) while 1/2 the country is elated this week, the other half is deeply in need of some botox right between the eyebrows.

Sorry I can’t help you with that (Virtual Blogging Botox Party?!) but I can offer some completely over the top, nothing even vaguely tethered to reality escapism for just a couple of minutes.

If you’ve picked up just one fashion magazine lately no doubt you’ve clocked the fierce force of ornamentation, brocade, bling, bang & baroque that assailed the runways this Fall.

Dolce & Gabbana, Givenchy, Balmain, Alexander McQueen, and Valentino were only some of the big boys that pulled out all the stops with needlepoint and pearls.

Seriously I don’t even want to think about how much these jackets must cost (or how much they weigh for that matter…couture as exercise?)But the exquisite workmanship and beauty cannot be denied.

Unless of course you’re a dyed in the wool “Grunge” devotee’

In which case these Celine sandals from Spring ’13 might be more up your ballroom

I admit, chances are very slim we’re going to see anyone wearing most of these, but it’s certainly Fantasy Fashion at it’s best.

Speaking of Baroque, Rococo and Fantasy…When I was in Paris a few weeks ago I saw John Malkovich in the Hotel Costes restaurant. (Well, actually one of my girlfriends spotted him-literally the first SECOND we walked in. She’s rather genius at that. She can also read a guest list upside down. In French) It took me a minute or two before my one lasik-ed eye was able to confirm that yes, indeed it was J.M. He looked, you know, pretty good, pretty cool & pretty louche, much how you would expect John Malkovich to look holding court in a french bar at 1:00am. Afterwards, my friends had a little visit with him and said he was utterly charming. Don’t ask me why I didn’t go with them. If it had been Sawyer I would have. Anyway (sorry-this is getting so long!) when I got home to Santa Barbara a friend called and said she was having some people over to watch “Dangerous Liaisons” and would I like to come. Would I??!

Do you remember how GOOD that film was and can you believe it was made in 1988??

Does this jog your memory?

Of course we’ve had several films with similar sensibilities since then

Sophia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” comes to mind. It was beautiful and fun but didn’t even come close to the naughtiness and wit of “Dangerous Liaisons”