Nikki Beach

Early evening at Nikki Beach, Saint Tropez, August 09

Paris Weekend

I'm going to Paris this weekend!

(image via fifi lapin)

White City

Amman

Town and Country

Quilts of Gee's Bend

Gee's Bend is a small rural community in Alabama. The women traditionally use whatever fabric they can get hold of, and their style is distinctive, bold, and sophisticated, based on traditional American (and African American) quilts, but with a geometric simplicity reminiscent of Amish quilts and modern art.

(images via auburn; text via quilts of gee's bend)

Love

My home away from home, in the south of France

Colour-Blocking

Wooden stools by Judith Seng

(via sub-studio design)

Prelude IV

His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o'clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.

I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.

Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.

TS Eliot, 1917
(via wsu)

Copper pots

Naughty Felicity

Went a bit beserk at Uniqlo, on Jil Sander's +J

High Rise

Electric blue

Bring back summer....

Nice, Cote d'Azur

Books from Jane

My friend Jane gave me these two books, both of which I loved. Mangoes is a political satire, about the assassination of General Zia. It's clever, funny, and interesting. Lush Life is set in the Lower East Side of New York, and is gritty and smart and a brilliant read. I don't know how he manages to capture the dialogue and the scene without becoming cheesy: great writing. Reviews in the hyper-links. Thanks Jane!

Irving Penn

Irving Penn (1917-2009)

(images via google)

Kicks

Crazy shoes

Alexander McQueen Spring 2010

(via fashionologie)

End of Summer

Ryan McGinley, I know where the summer goes

Walls and Windows

Hay-riding

Stunning new Chanel collection: Spring 2010

Must read: Garance Dore's post about the show, written in her characteristic quirky and adorable style.

(images via style.com and The Cut)

Jordan Miscellany

More snaps from my trip to Jordan earlier this year

New

Opening in Regent Street - excited!

Bottles and Buckets

Antique markets, Mondays in Nice.

Paris Opera

Photographs by Willy Rizzo, of the Paris Opera Ballet, taken in 1955, 1950 and 1955 (top to bottom).
(via the guardian)

Vintage

If you want to shop for vintage clothes, bags, shoes, sunglasses in London, go to Absolute Vintage. Madness inside, but lots of fun and soooo many things to browse through. Near Spitalfields.

NY, London, Milan, Paris

(via The Cut)