tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65011409481901852192024-02-19T08:38:26.355-08:00From London with StyleRandom thoughts and gorgeous finds from London and beyondRuthie Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06600337288130457289noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501140948190185219.post-49215523601741871622013-10-28T08:45:00.001-07:002013-10-28T08:49:53.903-07:00The Greatness of GreyEmbrace stormy weather and the arrival of the hinterland to our fair shores.<br />
However you spell it grey/gray is great. Enjoy it. Marni says so.<br />
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If you’ve not heard of Miss. Misty Copeland, you soon will. A 30 year-old girl from Missouri Kansas with bright, inquisitive eyes and an even brighter future. She’s the first African-American female soloist in the<a href="http://www.abt.org/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e61c24; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">American Ballet Theatre</a> (ABT) in over 20 years.</div>
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Misty’s natural talent shone through from her very first ballet lesson, aged 13, when she was offered a scholarship to study full time. Seventeen years later, Copeland is a ballerina in demand, enchanting audiences in with her solo parts in productions of <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don Quixote</em>, <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Romeo & Juliet, Sleeping Beauty </em>and<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sylvia</em>.</div>
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In a recent interview with <a href="http://www.net-a-porter.com/magazine/204/18" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e61c24; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Edit</em></a>, Misty talks of the stereotypes in the ballet world, ‘It’s getting the idea into people’s heads that ballerinas can have brown skin that is frustrating… my goal is to set a positive example for minority dancers; to make it easier for them in years to come’.</div>
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The very fact that she’s interviewing with <a href="http://www.net-a-porter.com/magazine/204/18" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e61c24; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Net a Porter’s magazine</a> tells us she’s gaining notoriety. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002239/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e61c24; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prince</a>is already a fan, asking her to dance in music videos, world tours and even on top of his piano during a performance at New York’s Madison Square Gardens. Self-confessed ballet-addict and fashion editor at large, <a href="http://crfashionbook.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e61c24; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Carine Roitfeld</a> is also a huge fan, inviting Copeland to be photographed for a ballet-themed issue of her <a href="http://crfashionbook.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e61c24; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CR Fashion Book</em></a>.</div>
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I’ve certainly fallen for her, and can’t help but admire her focus, drive and increasingly impressive wardrobe – thanks probably in part to the perennially ‘on point’ Madame Roitfeld. However, I will admit my jealousy of Copeland’s so-called ‘natural ability’. I might be a year younger than her (ha as if that matters) but sometimes second position is a struggle for me. Nonetheless I’m inspired to return to Frame’s <a href="http://www.moveyourframe.com/shoreditch/classes/signature/frame-barre" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #e61c24; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">BARRE</a> class again. There’s a brilliant (and very bendy) ballerina in all of us, right? 1,2,3 and plié… see you at the barre.</div>
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<i>Thanks to Ruth Boulter, freelance writer, stylist and Shoreditch dweller for this post. She’s a self-confessed Frame-addict, so look out for her.</i></div>
Ruthie Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06600337288130457289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501140948190185219.post-18835324513666844802013-07-22T04:36:00.002-07:002013-07-22T04:37:13.193-07:00Karl: the cartoonNow if you've read any of my blog, you'll know I love nothing more than a post about Karl Lagerfeld. I mean there's so much to say. And then, of course, there's his feline friend/fiance Choupette. Yes, he has said he would like to marry his cat. And why not - she's a beaut.<br />
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The latest in Lagerfeld land is that the king of monchrome has found his way into cartoon land, thanks to the TOKIDOKI a Japanese-style artist studio run by Simone Legno. It's a series of ads for an anime-style collaboration for Karl - Lagerfeld's new own-line collection at Net-A-Porter. Watch it now: <br />
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Check out Penguin's newly commissioned George Orwell book covers designed by <a href="http://www.typeasimage.com/" target="_blank">David Pearson</a>. The five-book set includes an innovative take on Orwell's most revered novel – Nineteen Eighty-Four – for which he has obscured the author's name and title with black foiling, rendering them almost illegible. <br />
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The Great Orwell series is out today, <a href="http://www.penguin.co.uk/" target="_blank">penguin.co.uk</a>. More of Pearson's work is at <a href="http://www.typeasimage.com/" target="_blank">typeasimage.com</a>. Ruthie Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06600337288130457289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501140948190185219.post-55411654486102601442013-01-28T07:47:00.001-08:002013-01-31T06:43:58.934-08:00GIF THISHere at From London With Style we're loving that animated GIFs are being used for editorial. Like this one by designer duo <a href="http://www.reedandrader.com/">Reed + Rader</a> who recently produced GIF-based fashion shoots for both <a href="http://www.vmagazine.com/">V Magazine</a> and online store <a href="http://www.ssense.com/">SSENSE</a>.Weird and weirder.<br />
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Where would all the designers and writers be without their trusty black Moleskine notebook? Well, fellow 'creatives' maybe it's time we all branched out and let a little colour pop in...<br />
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From the Jamie Oliveoil school of cooking and after an 18-month stint at New York's Gramercy Tavern, head chef and owner Gregory Marchand offers one of the best value 3-course menus in town from a teeny weeny kitchen. Oh la la! Enough francophile phrases to make you hungry yet? Allez-y!<br />
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Ruthie Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06600337288130457289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501140948190185219.post-21294651406990650022012-08-31T06:41:00.000-07:002013-06-21T07:44:06.227-07:00Karl, I think you're the cat's whiskers...So Karl's new collection is at N-A-P, and yes it's lovely - lace clip-on collars, utilitarian pockets and natty prints. And yes, it's got a quirky title - <a href="http://www.net-a-porter.com/Shop/List/Karl_Looks">Karlouflage</a>. And yes, I still want the <span id="goog_1078867923"></span><a href="http://www.net-a-porter.com/product/315352">PVC sweatshirt<span id="goog_1078867924"></span></a> from the last launch (jeeez!). But to be honest you can find all that out for yourself. I don't wanna talk about Karl (shock I know, I love him dearly) but it's King Karl's fluffball Choupette who's really stealing the show. MIAOW!<br />
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Ruthie Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06600337288130457289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501140948190185219.post-41295869344592324232012-08-31T05:03:00.003-07:002012-08-31T06:28:03.964-07:00Are you Afraid of the Dark?Hold on a minute fast-track fashion!While AW12 is everywhere, here at <i>FromLondonWithStyle</i> we're still waiting for summer to actually hit. Everyday I look longingly at a yet-unworn pair of Oliver Peoples' sunnies lying folorn and purposeless as the sky grays over once again. What's that? Could it be? A glimmer of soleil? No, someone turned the bathroom light on over the road again. Bah! Booking tickets - gotto give those sunnies something to live for.<br />
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Ruthie Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06600337288130457289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6501140948190185219.post-27261638237054625312012-07-10T17:52:00.001-07:002012-07-10T17:52:41.351-07:00Quiet Contempt for QuotesConsumed with a love of words, beautiful quotes can be sweet delicacies to cherish. Or they can be thrown across an inordinate number of mundane objects to line greedy pockets. <br />
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Best piece: one of the preparatory sketches for his Weeping Woman series. (below)<br />
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After-culture drinks: on the terrace at the Oxo Tower bar - nice touch. <br />
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What would one choose to do next after such an exciting career? Well, no need to decide PRADA has come to the rescue, picking him as the 'face of'! Thanks Miuccia, he's just lovely – and thankfully he's kept the cool styling, 're-modelled as a Golden Age of Hollywood studio icon', complete with slicked back hair that's short on the side – a masterpiece.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"All that glisters is not gold"(Act 2, Scene 7)<b style="text-align: left;"> </b>was the one quote I could always remember without fail and thus it made a regular, sparkling appearance on my English Literature exam essays at Uni, and I'm not ashamed to add in some of my French ones too! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Now, my uncanny ability to only ever remember this quote was not only down to my "of course we'll study" revision sessions spent with fellow <i>dillettantes</i> in the pub (read: not learning useful quotes). It certainly wasn't because Kanye West had recently released his rather catchy ditty "Family Business" which artfully borrows the phrase. No, I think it's all because I love gold! I understand the sentiment behind it, not worshipping false idols etc. but to be honest when I think about it, all I see is GOLD, lovely shimmering molton rivers of the stuff. Keep your silver and your bronze, I'm only in it if I'm gonna get gold!<br />
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Apparently I'm not on my own either, if the gift lists currently being released by magazines and websites everywhere are anything to go buy. Here's my round up of all that is good, gold and, er great!<br />
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