Bruce Oldfield

Bruce Oldfield is a British fashion designer.

He launched the Bruce Oldfield label in 1975

with his ready-to-wear collections.

He began making couture clothes in the late 1970's

and was a favourite of Diana, Princess of Wales.

He is one of the many designers rumoured to be working on

Kate Middleton's wedding dress...

nobody knows...only a week to go...

To see Bruce Oldfield at work...

http://www.vogue.co.uk/

Take a look at some of his wonderful

wedding gowns

This is my favourite Oldfield creation...

absolutely stunning!

And lastly,

a photograph to remember...

To learn more about this designer and view more of his

work please go to...

http://www.bruceoldfield.com/

Friday's Top Style Quotes

This Friday's 80 - 71...

80

Elegance is not the prerogative of those

who have just escaped from their adolescence,

but of those who have already taken

possession of their future.

Coco Chanel

79

Only simplicity and truth count.  

It has to come from the inside.

You can't fake it.

Audrey Hepburn

78

Style is what you have,

not what you buy.

Anonymous

77

Personal style is accepting who you are ~

style is effortless confidence in being yourself;

it is a way of putting yourself together

according to your mood and what you want to project.

Diane Von Furstenberg

76

Simplicity, purity, harmony ~ style in life.

Stefania Ricci

75

The decision to live in joy takes moral courage,

and is, ultimately, one of the

truest expressions of style.

Pamela Keogh

74

A woman has the age she deserves.

Coco Chanel

73

It is never too late.

to be what we might have been.

George Eliot

72

Her inner themes were always simple, and the brought

everything back to basics:

care, be kind, love ~ yet, it was also the way her soul

gently whispered those emotions

that brought it home.

Sean Ferrer, about his Mother, Audrey Hepburn

71

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definitive work;

dare to be what you are 

and learn to resign with a good grace

all that you are not.

Believe in your own individuality.

Henri Frederick Amiel

Happy Easter

Wishing everybody a very happy easter...

as an easter treat, a few vintage vogue covers.

Truly stunning...

1918

1920's

1920's

1920's

1931

1941

1949

1950

My favourite is the 1950 cover...

cleverly simple and graceful...perfect.

Enjoy the Easter Sunshine!

Parisian Chic

According to Ines de la Fressange, Parisian Chic is easy!

She shares her secrets of how Parisian women maintain effortless glamour and timeless allure.

"You don't need to be born in Paris to have Parisian style."

she says in her book,

PARISIAN CHIC

"It is an attitude, a state of mind.  Between rocker and ho-hum bourgeois,

a Parisian is always first, never second.

A Parisian steps lightly around the fashion traps of the day.

Her secret?

She breathes the air du temps and puts it to good use, her way,

and always with the same aim: fashion should be fun.

The Parisian follows a few golden rules, but she likes to transgress, too.

It's part of the style.

C'est facile!"

Her 17-year old daughter, Nine, has certainly inherited her Mother's

beauty and style...

Now, appearing in the campaign for Bottega Veneta's

new fragrance.

Mother and daughter together...

Can't wait to read more from this beautiful, stylish lady...

Amazon...next click!!

Photographer's Spot: Peter Lindbergh

I love black and white photography and the German, fashion photographer,

Peter Lindberg is one of the world's most pre-eminent.

He is famous for shooting huge black and white images of the

world's supermodels and is credited with helping create

the supermodel phenomenon in the 1990's.

A recent gift from my husband is Peter Lindbergh's book 

entitiled

Ten Women by Peter Lindbergh

(1993)

It is a stunning, 'must have' book for anybody interested in fashion photography.

The portfolio of photographs showing these beautiful women:

Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista,

Kristen McMenamy, Kate Moss, Tatjana Patiz,

Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington and Amber Valetta

in various moods and poses is captivating...

I think what I like so much about the photographs...is the sensitivity

he brings to the portraits...exquisite.

For more information and further reading...

http://www.peterlindbergh.com/

Princess Diana

For young girls and women of the 80's (of which I was one)

Princess Diana was a style icon, we copied her dress, her shoes,

her handbags, we couldn't get enough of her, she was like no other member

of the Royal Family and we simply

adored her.

There has been much talk and comparison between her and Kate Middleton...

Kate is a beautiful young woman, with her own style and personality,

just as Diana all those years before.

Here are a few stunning covers and shots of the

irreplaceable Diana.

It's made me quite teary looking at them...

Fuschia Poncho

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@

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The perfect mid-season cover up

With bright and bold colours being this season's must have...
team this soft, hot pink poncho with white jeans and flats
and add high colour to your wardrobe!

Fuschia Poncho
from
Catherine Robinson Cashmere


www.catherinerobinson.me.uk

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Iconic Wedding Dresses

With the excitement of the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middlelton very nearly here... take a look at some iconic wedding dresses from Cinderella to Sarah Jessica Parker...Elizabeth Taylor to Wallis Simpson.


For me, Wallis Simpson's wedding dress in 1937 is absolute elegance
and beautifully frames her slender figure...
the dress worn by the actress Gene Tierney in the film
Razor's Edge in 1947, designed by Oleg Cassini, a favourite designer
of Grace Kelly...is my favourite it is just exquisite...

Do you have a favourite?



From fairytales to Hollywood...

Princess Diana

Jacqueline Kennedy


See more iconic wedding dresses

@

http://www.vogue.co.uk/