Category: London
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London- VQ; Cocktails At Dawn
A mad dash around London would tire anyone, on a good day, especially during the holidays. There is never enough time, you are always running late and running on empty. I was having one of those days when I went up to London recently to meet with a friend. We weren’t quite knuckled down for…
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Christmas- The Windows
Christmas is my second favourite time of year, the first being my birthday of course, Christmas has a special place in my heart, the season, the feeling, food, weather, family, friends, carols, church… for me its all good things rolled into one. One of the things that makes me excited for Christmas are the holiday…
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Christmas, From Selfridges With Love.
I love a good Christmas window, and I love how the shops get decked up all through the holiday season. Its christmas in London already, normally Christmas never starts for me until the 1st of December when I start counting down until the big day. Besides my birthday, Christmas is my favourite holiday. The feeling of…
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London- Beirut Street Kitchen
One of the best things about working away from central London is that I get to discover all these little gems in corners of the city left untarnished by the masses and tourists, no offence, but there is nothing worse than having to wait a half hour for your lunch because of tourists taking pictures…
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London- Monday Evening at Mason’s
Fortnum and Mason that is. One of the best things about not living in London is getting to see London in a whole new light. Discovering places that were right outside your door, and meeting old friends in new places. I miss London for its familiarity, but I love it even more now for its…
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Lindfield Village
Its getting hotter over here in the UK, blue skies, sunshine, birds and butterflies. After months of putting everything in place at the new space in Sussex and settling into my home proper, a sojourn into the surrounding villages was long overdue. Lindfield, named many times as the “best kept village in sussex” (it even had to withdraw…
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See- London; The Glamour of Italian Fashion: 1945-2014
From the first international fashion show to the current status of Italian Fashion, the Fendi Baguette to the Sartoria, the V&A curates some of the important events that have made italian fashion what it is today. Post WWII with Italy in ruins, the fashion industry blossomed under the stewardship of Giovanni Batista Giorgioni; a business…
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The Wineshop @HarveyNichols
Harvey Nichols is one of my favourite shops in London. I love its contemporary-luxe niche and the fact that it shows great support for young british talent- it sells relatively unknown brands like Michael Van Der Ham along side Lanvin, has five different ladies footwear departments, a dungeon of suaveness for menswear that sells brands…
