HOLLYWOOD LAND

Mario Testino photographs Karen Elson and Casey Afflex for VOGUE US 2008. Styled by the one and only Grace Coddington of course.

THEN & NOW

Stealing a smoke in style.....

1960                                                          2006

Vintage Christian Dior adverts

The Duchess of Cambridge

So we think Kate Middleton- ahem, The Duchess of Cambridge, is a bit of a plain-toast royal as far as fashion is concerned. Before the marriage she certainly didnt seem to care too much for making fashion statements of any kind. Thankfully, she now has a full-time troup of advisors and a palace budget behind her and the results.....well... they have been mixed but getting progressively bolder. Until now.
Behold the Duchess in Canada.
Chic red hat, perfectly adorned with maple leafs for Canada day. Prim, lady like white dress for Canada's other colour. Fan n tassle clutch and red heels.
Maple leaf diamond brooch.
More of this please. Until then, we will have to satisfy ourselves with the hats...

Hailee Steinfeld for MIU MIU

We are completely in love with MIU MIU's new Fall/Winter 2011 campaign- shot by Bruce Weber and featuring 15 year old actress Hailee Steinfeld.
We absolutely adore Hailee, a true lady-in-the-making. We're not sure who is styling her- but they seem to get it dead on each time. These days it seems every hollywood actress under 25 is being pushed on to the red carpet looking like a high class hooker; wrapped up in teensy Herve Leger bandage dresses with tousled hair and sky-high platform Louboutins. Ms. Steinfeld likes to keeps her hair pulled back, shows little skin and often  keeps the hem line below the knee. Prim and proper, yet perfectly fashionable. Bravo.

MIU MIU FALL/WINTER 2011

VINTAGE VOGUE COVERS, 1950s

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1950s accessories

VOGUE 1952

Suzanne Rogers' Closet

Canadian philanthropist Suzanne Rogers' closet is a cupcake fashion fantasy.... think Chanel,Giambattista Valli, Alexander McQueen, Balmain....ya that's right- all those labels slighty beyond our reach. This woman has a pretty fierce closet and unlike her other counterparts featured on THE COVETEUR, she obviously has the budget to indulge in any sartorial whim (three nearly identical Balmain jackets? no problem) and to decorate like Marie Antionette on steriods.
She even has enough bubble-gum pink chanel bags to have a tea party. We can't figure out whether we love it or hate it. In any case, we're jealous.

Bee Eadie, Lady of Style

So I think we all agree that there are more than enough blogs out there featuring  skinny young things who snap away and show us their american apparel high waisted shorts in every outfit combination humanly possible, all while trying to look slightly jaded and "caught on the street". Enough already. And then there is Ms. Bee Eadie from ATLANTIC-PACIFIC, a breath of fresh fashion air, and a skinny young thing who does it lady-like all the way.  Bee's daily outfit posts effortlessly jump between edgy downtown rocker and as of late the more common "unapologetic uptown princess". Girl is rockin the layers and accessories like no other, showing them how preppy is really done and why it's so much cooler to be sophisticated. We especially love it when she heaps on the pearls and goes for old-school up dos. More please.

Melvin Sokolsky

Melvin Sokolsky's iconic bubble series for Harper's Bazaar 1963.

THEN & NOW the clutch

Laura Stone, Vogue September 2010

Grace Coddington does it again. A brilliant and beautiful editorial featuring Laura Stone from the September 2010 edition of VOGUE.