Honestly truly an underrated luxury is not having to try your altered clothes at the tailor and doing a second round because they are THAT good—seriously though finding one that take instructions without giving uncalled for recommendations is a serious style game changer
talc scented powder on your body and a sprinkling of baby cologne and 2) a bourgeois-bohemian woman in her 30s who wears a silk blouse unbuttoned to the sternum and chain smokes during dinner while fiddling with her lariat necklace and rolls her eyes when you notice it
How random is it that Mustafa stocks Charlie Blue and why is it the TWO scent profiles I love the most which is 1) sleeping in the car as a kid and having your parents carry you into the home and when you wake up, you’re wearing your fleece pyjamas and your mom lovingly dusts
Not me… watching Xmen’97 last night and thinking it’ll be a pow-wow smorgasbord of action and drama but instead… passing out in a pool of tears at 3am…
#1 fashion advice is to find a tailor that
1. Doesn’t talk much or give their opinions unless you ask for it!!!
2. Asks you to look at the “fitting” from all angles instead of going “how, can?” after it’s pinned.
3. Measures BOTH your shoulders when adjusting sleeve length!!!
Why is there nowhere glamorous to have dinner in Singapore anymore like a cathedral of impeccable taste from the entrance door’s fixtures to the food presentation to the dress code and even the tiling used in the washrooms IM STARVING OF GLAMOUR
Gonna say it again!!! Why do celebrities NOT ENGAGE STYLISTS WHO TAILOR THEIR APPEARANCE OUTFITS SPECIFICALLY TO THEIR BODY PROPORTIONS yall really walking around in samples that don’t fit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God Altuzarra was SO GOOD this season it’s PEAK NEW YORK CHIC TO ME the easy elegance, the right dose of uptown and downtown pizzazz, a carefully calibrated dose of ~fashion~ that real women can aspire to and CLOTHES THAT TOUCH THE HEART WHILE TICKLING THE BRAIN
I also keep thinking about this quote by Natacha Ramsay Levi about how jewellery to her is less about the provenance and more so about the secret complexities and dreams we cast upon them
Can’t believe… it was just two days ago that I was out swimming in an infinity pool and eating tropical fruits BUT FLASH FORWARD TO TODAY AND I AM SITTING ON THE TRAIN NEXT TO AN AUNTY WHO HAS THAT BITTER-MUSKY SMELL THAT COMES FROM NOT SHOWERING
Like every gay man into literature, I too am heinously addicted to re-reading up everything Capote related after each episode of Feud and wondering what it was like living IN THE LAST ÉPOQUE OF STYLE AND GLAMOUR
I don’t know if it’s just the magazine industry in particular but the concept of karma within it is SO STRONG like you literally do not have to lift a finger to set wheels in motion
The “picture of you at 21” trend on IG has me realising that aside from bizarre but short ventures into styles like “soft-hypebeast”… I am nothing but sartorially consistent