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Style Icons: Laurie Anderson

I am (once again) slow to the party, this time on loving Laurie Anderson, where have I been? Middleagedad took me to see her Dirtday! performance at the South Bank on Friday, as part of Anthony’s Meltdown. Apart from O… Read More Read More

Style icons: Peter Jones Ladies

  It’s definitely Chelsea’s week this week, what with Chelsea Flower Show and Chelsea in Bloom, so it might be a good moment to mention Peter Jones Ladies….(Peter Jones is a branch of John Lewis). Where New York has Advanced… Read More Read More

Style icon: Dr Julia Hoffman

Dark Shadows is a tounge in cheek re-make of a 1960’s TV drama and stars Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins, a vampire who comes back from the dead and wakes up in 1972. Made by Tim Burton (obvs) Helena Bonham… Read More Read More

Style Icons: Miuccia Prada

Today we’re having a little photographic appreciation of Mrs Prada. Just because. Well actually it’s due to the fact she and Elsa Schiaparelli are the subject of a great new exhibition opening at the Costume Institute of the New York… Read More Read More

Style icon: Catherine Baba

Catherine Baba is an Australian stylist and fashion consultant living in Paris, who has worked for Chanel, Givenchy, Balmain, Ungaro, Dazed, Vogue and Vanity Fair. Baba is renowned for her retro glamour and personal style and is regularly seen riding… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Miss Piggy

Sometimes we women are a bit witchy (well make that a lot, in my circle of friends) and all seem to be thinking the same thing at the same time! This week, it seemed to be all about make up… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood moved to California In her early forties, after a succession of failed artistic careers (most notably as an actress) and an annulled marriage.  After buying a pair of baroque plates with a luster glaze and trying to unsuccessfully… Read More Read More

Style icon: Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama’s is Japan’s most prominent contemporary artist. Her paintings, sculptures and installations revolve around her obsession with infinity, pattern and repetition and she is well known for her use of polka dots. A true creative, she has struggled with… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Jetsun Pema

Last month King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk of Bhutan married 21 year old student Jetsun Pema, in a lavish ceremony in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. The wedding was a huge event in the tiny, remote kingdom, as the… Read More Read More

Style icon: Siobhan Fahey

Anyone who was a fan of Bananarama will remember the name Siobhan Fahey. While I wasn’t a huge fan of their music (but did dance to it in the Students Union) I always loved the original band members style, Siobhan’s… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Joan Collins

There is no link to add this video, so you need to click here for a truly fabulous 80’s fashion extravaganza. I’m off to find my shoulder pads, pill box hat and fur stole and to listen to Giorgio Moroder’s… Read More Read More

Style icon: Carmen Dell’Orefice

In a world obsessed with youth and beauty it is refreshing to meet a woman who proves the two are not inextricably linked. Yesterday I spent the day at the London College of Fashion graduation ceremony as a friend was… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Poly Styrene

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 Read More

Style Icon: Margaret Howell

We came across a feature in the NY Times on Margaret Howell and were reminded of how much we admire both her personal and interior style. She lives mostly in South East London and has a second home by the… Read More Read More

My Mom, Style Icon by Piper Weiss

We hope all you mums are having a lovely day and have enjoyed breakfast in bed on a tray, and maybe even a small gift. We sometimes forget who were before we became mums and many women loose their confidence… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Katharine Whitehorn

We went to another Semple Secrets last night, the last in the immediate series and goodness we have enjoyed them. We thought Grayson Perry was un top-able, but the quietly elegant Katharine Whitehorn, journalist and all round female style/brain icon… Read More Read More

Style icon: Edith Head

We seem to be having a bit of a Hollywood glamour moment here at TWR. We so feel a trend coming on!! Amanda is having a Hitchcock moment and I am, as ever, in Edna Mode mode, if you get… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Wallis Simpson

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 Read More

Style icon: Lady Holland

After only the second episode of Upstairs Downstairs, we are well and truly hooked. We grew up with the Bellamys of Eaton Place and I have to admit to a slight childhood obsession with Edwardian maids, and spent a great… Read More Read More

Style icon: Franca Sozzani

Editor of Italian Vogue since 1988, Franco Sozzani is believe it or not, 60 years old. Ok she works in fashion, so she should know how to dress. But doesn't she look amazing, she even manages to pull off wearing… Read More Read More

Style Icon: Mrs Prada

Picture from The Sartorialist Looking at Miuccia Prada's end of show bow on The Sartorialist yesterday, I thought her skirt looked the absolute perfect length. The issue of length has been troubling me a lot recently. To show a knobbly… Read More Read More

Style icon: Chantal Biya

Ok, we may be being a little ironic here when we call the first lady of Cameroon Chantal Biya a style icon, as she isn't really stylish in the conventional sense. But there is something truly fabulous about her, in… Read More Read More

Style icon: Jane Birkin

Common law has it that it's best not to meet your heros as they are sure to let you down, well not Miss Jane Birkin, who is one of our TOP style icons and who was utterly fabulous when we… Read More Read More

Style icon: Chrissie Hynde

Despite being hard hearted, cynical been-around-the-block-and-seen-most-things fashion gals,we are big romantics here at TWR. Really, we are. So news that the deeply cool rock goddess Chrissie Hynde has been madly in love with a chap half her age and writing… Read More Read More

Style icon: Constance Spry

Constance Spry (1886 – 1960) was a florist, social reformer, teacher and best selling author. She encouraged people to make their homes look beautiful with flowers and foliage picked form hedge rows and scraps of wasteland. She used a unusual… Read More Read More