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Art & CultureJune 29, 2011

Venice Art Biennale: musical cash point machines

By Amanda

One of the very best ideas I saw at the Venice Art Biennale wasn’t actually very ‘arty’ or beautiful, but it was an ingenious idea that, if I ruled the world, I’d implement everywhere tomorrow. It was Algorithm, the musical… Read More

Art & CultureJune 27, 2011

Venice Art Biennale: our review

By Amanda

This weekend I went with art student middleagedad (and with gorgeous metallic blue nails thanks to No7) to see the Venice Art Biennale 2011. I know, I know, it’s hard sometimes doing this blog, it’s a tough life, but we… Read More

Art & CultureJune 25, 2011

We love: Richard Nott’s dresses

By Amanda

Photos from Richard Nott Back in the days, I once went to a fashion show that made my heart lurch, the hair on the back of my neck stand on end and my credit card faint with panic. It was… Read More

Art & Culture, UncategorizedJune 15, 2011

Tea time treat: The Tony Awards opener

By Amanda

Via Emma Freud on twitter, enjoy.… Read More

Art & CultureJune 14, 2011

The Burning House

By Jane

What would you save if your house were burning down? Difficult one isn’t it. Foster R Huntington asks the question on his blog The Burning House and invites people to post a picture and list of the things they would… Read More

Art & CultureJune 13, 2011

See this: Katie Louise Surridge’s Voo-Dology

By Amanda

The contemporary art gallery EB&Flow is showing the work of Saatchi-star Katie Louise Surridge in her first one man show in London. Jane and I popped along to the opening last week to drink the free beer check it out… Read More

Art & CultureJune 10, 2011

The all new Women’s Room

By Jane

A while ago we decided it was time to up our game and get ourselves a new look. We noticed many of the blogs we read every day were getting slicker and easier to read, and interestingly many websites were… Read More

Art & CultureJune 8, 2011

Sshhh, I’m talking

By Jane

You know what it’s like, you get together with your best girls friends, the wine is flowing, someones teenager is going off the rails, somebody else hates their husband, two people hate their jobs and there is just SO much… Read More

Art & CultureMay 23, 2011

We love: Vivian Maier

By The Womens Room

Historian John Maloof was researching a history book in 2007, when he came across a huge box full of negatives at an auction house. He bought them for $400 and when he finally got around to looking at them a… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyMay 10, 2011

Tea break treat: Tale of a Fairy

By The Womens Room

Today Karl Lagerfled will show the Spring Summer Chanel cruise collection at the at Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, which recently underwent a massive 45 million Euro renovation. We can only imagine how glamorous it will be! Karl (like we… Read More

Art & CultureMay 5, 2011

The unwritten rules of blogging

By The Womens Room

Image by Banksy The great thing about blogging is the amazing people you get to meet both online and offline. The blogging community is about respect, sharing and being generous with content. Its the same with Twitter, its all about… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyApril 29, 2011

Royal Wedding: the highlights

By The Womens Room

The happy couple and the dress I started the day of ‘the wedding’ somewhat cynically, not helped by the dog walkers of N16 who all proclaimed they ‘would not be watching’. One woman was really miffed as her childrens gay… Read More

Art & CultureApril 29, 2011

We love: Weddings

By The Womens Room

Regent Street And will be glued to our televisions this morning. So check back later for our low down on who wore what, etc etc. In the mean time why not make up you royal wedding guest name!!Start with Lord… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyApril 27, 2011

Style Icon: Poly Styrene

By The Womens Room

Inspired by an early Sex Pistols gig on Hastings pier, Poly Styrene formed X-Ray Spex when she was 18 and went on to make some of the most iconic singles of the punk generation. Warrior in Woolworths from the brilliant… Read More

Art & CultureApril 13, 2011

We love: A Collection a Day

By The Womens Room

Lisa Congdon is an illustrator and fine artist based in San Francisco and a prolific collector of old and unusual things. In 2010 she chronicled all of her collections in a blog called A Collection a Day, and we loved the unusual… Read More

Art & CultureApril 9, 2011

Watch this: Britains Next Big Thing

By The Womens Room

Any new designer or small manufacturer who has tried to get an appointment with a buyer from a major retailer, will know how difficult it is to get a foot in the door without some sort of introduction. Many buyers… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyApril 5, 2011

We love: 1970’s, TOTP and Chelsea Girl

By The Womens Room

You may have noticed we have been enjoying rather a lot of 70’s style nostalgia lately, perhaps it’s all the 1970’s inspired styling we have been seeing on the catwalks, but we just cant seem to get enough of the… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyMarch 24, 2011

We don’t just love, we adore: Advanced Style and Nowness

By The Womens Room

We have mentioned before, how much we love the fabulous stylish older women Ari Seth Cohen features on his Advanced Style blog. He recently collaborated with film maker Lina Plioplyte, to create a short film featuring some of his favourite… Read More

Art & CultureMarch 23, 2011

Sad to see you go: Elizabeth Taylor

By The Womens Room

Photograph from March 1972 Cosmopolitan, photographer unlisted I have to hand the first ever issue of UK Cosmopolitan, from March 1972, where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton give an interview ten years into their marriage (they were to divorce two… Read More

Art & CultureMarch 22, 2011

Tea break treat: Double Exposure

By The Womens Room

Double Exposure is an innovative digital film project that encapsulates one of the world’s oldest image making techniques with contemporary on-line distribution. Created by Louis Vuitton, the first of the series of films features conceptual artist and filmmaker, Sam Taylor-Wood.… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyMarch 6, 2011

Living in a fashion bubble

By The Womens Room

The true genius’s who put the Dior collection together – the staff from the Dior atalier The whole John Galliano debate continues to fascinate us and after Friday’s celebrity no show on the front row at the Dior show, we… Read More

Art & CultureMarch 2, 2011

We love dogs: but are not so sure about Doggie Moms!

By The Womens Room

Visiting New York last summer I was surprised at how dog mania had taken over the city in the same way it has in Tokyo. There were dogs everywhere, very cute but often quite badly behaved, as they seemed to… Read More

Art & Culture, Home & GardenFebruary 24, 2011

We love: Fire and Knives and food futurology

By The Womens Room

We are huge fans of food magazines here at TWR and love hand drawn illustrations, so the alternative food publication, Fire and Knives, ticks all our boxes, as it's full of beautiful illustrations and interesting food features. Launched as a… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyFebruary 10, 2011

Something to look forward to: Bill Cunningham New York

By The Womens Room

'We all get dressed for Bill' – Anna Wintour. We have talked before about how much we love the work of New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades the 80+ photographer has been documenting the street fashion trends of… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutFebruary 8, 2011

See this: Robert Mapplethorpe, Night Work

By The Womens Room

White Gauze 1984 – Robert Mapplethorpe After seeing Patti Smith in conversation at the recent Intelligence Squared event, Amanda and I felt compelled to read her award winning memoir Just Kids. Written as a tribute to her lover and best… Read More

Art & CultureFebruary 4, 2011

Why we loved Thirtysomething

By The Womens Room

If you have the new cable channel, Sky Atlantic (sadly we don't) starting this week, you will be able to watch the entire series of Thirtysomething from beginning to end. For some forty somethings this will be massive news, but… Read More

Art & CultureJanuary 31, 2011

Tea time treat: Roman and Williams

By The Womens Room

Roman and Williams have designed some of our favourite spaces. Both Amanda and I (and families) have stayed in the Ace Hotel in New York, which manages to be modern and contemporary and retain a sense of the past (it… Read More

Art & CultureJanuary 31, 2011

We love: local shops

By The Womens Room

I came across the photographer Gabriela Hasbun recently and loved both her stunning images and the stories behind them. The Mission Street series captures the essence of the many small businesses that have provided high quality goods and services in the Mission… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion, Fashion & Beauty, We Are ReadingJanuary 7, 2011

Storytelling through fashion

By The Womens Room

Biodegradable dress by Helen Story Dress made of pins by Susie MacMurrayOver the holidays I went to a great exhibition at the Royal Academy called Aware: Art Fashion Identity. It examines how artists and designers use clothing as a means… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyJanuary 5, 2011

Style Icon: Wallis Simpson

By The Womens Room

It may soon be time to hunt out that string of pearls you know you have somewhere in the attic, as the Wallis Simpson look is about to become big. Our favourite (or not so favourite, depending on your view)… Read More