I have never really bothered much with shoes. I mean, I’ve obviously always strapped things on to the bottom of my feet to help me walk around, but they were never what I considered to be investment pieces or things I ever got particularly exited about.
Well…all change. Julia, who I wrote about in Part I a few days ago, was mildly appalled when she caught sight of my rather motley collection of shoes, some of which I had had for years. Most of this line up…
I have a sense of style. It is at times misguided (I have several of my grandmother’s prized items in my wardrobe) but it’s there somewhere, cowering under a heap of clothes I own but never wear.
My recent revelation happened one evening at a dinner party when we were talking about things getting mislaid during house moves, whether or not it mattered and whether or not people actually missed what they’d lost. Read More
Let’s get one thing straight…for those of who are regular Changmoh readers you will probably already know this by now/could have guessed…I am no Shakespeare buff.
I can just about manage Romeo & Juliet (it was a GSCE set text so I won’t pretend my literary insights in to the play are to an advanced level) but had a rather severe set back when I went to see Sam Mendes’ production of Richard III when it was touring here last year. Read More
I always think that feeling when the hairdresser shows you your new hairstyle from all angles in the mirror (awaiting your oohs and aahhs) is the same sort of feeling you get when you’ve just had a baby and it’s presented to you pre-clean up: you want to dash home and run it under the tap to make it look a bit better and a bit more ‘yours’. Read More
The Audi Fashion Festival 2013 opened last night. The preliminary madness that surrounded Karl Lagerfeld’s visit to Singapore to launch Chanel’s 2013 Cruise Collection, exactly a week ago, couldn’t have been a better warm up (the Chanel event was a massive operation almost entirely managed out of Paris; they booked out the whole of the Raffles Hotel, roads were closed…it was huge). Read More
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