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Art & Culture, Out & AboutMay 15, 2017

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes: Pacing Manhattan

By Amanda

Our roving reporter Elena Bowes has just got back from another of her trips to New York, where she’s been busy visiting (mostly) art shows currently on in the city. Here’s how she got along. I just got back from… Read More

Out & AboutFebruary 3, 2017

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes: The Best Apps That New Yorkers Love

By Amanda

Our regular guest blogger Elena is making a big life change for 2017, she’s (semi) moving to New York, where no one does anything without checking an app first. But which ones to use? She shares her tips on the… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 25, 2016

Guest Blog: Elena Bowes visits Hayward House

By Amanda

Apologies, Elena and I had a bit of a techie glitch on her Friday post with images, she visited two shops for us in her New York Like A Local blogpost series, so here is what happened in part two… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutJuly 1, 2016

Guest Blog: Elena Bowes visits John Derian

By Amanda

In this next post from our New York Like A Local series, Elena Bowes visits one of my all time favourite NYC stores, John Derian, tucked away down on East Second Street, an inspirational place for anyone who likes making… Read More

Out & AboutApril 15, 2016

Guest Blog: Elena Bowes visits Three Lives & Co in New York

By Amanda

Our regular guest blogger Elena Bowes has been out and about discovering hidden gems in New York for us, this week it’s Three Lives & Company, if you are visiting this year, be sure to bookmark this charming little store.… Read More

Out & AboutApril 8, 2016

Guest Blog: Elena Bowes visits Tender Buttons

By Amanda

Guest blogger Elena Bowes went to New York’s Tender Buttons for us this month, I have never been in all the years I’ve been visiting NYC, but next visit, I’m heading straight over……If you’re visiting The Big Apple this year,… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 11, 2016

Romance And Air Miles: Mid-Life Love

By Amanda

One of our guest bloggers, cultural writer Elena Bowes, is doing a series of posts on New York stores, since although being based in London, she’s frequently in New York. When I asked why she was lucky enough to pop… Read More

Out & About, UncategorizedAugust 19, 2015

Guest Post: A Town Called Cold Spring by Rohini Wahi

By Jane

Rohini is a both a fellow blogger and a friend. She writes the lovely lifestyle and interiors blog The Beat That My Heart Skipped and very kindly offered to write a post for us from her summer holiday to the… Read More

Novels & Biogs, We Are ReadingJanuary 29, 2015

The Ruby Slippers by Keir Alexander

By Amanda

This is a sweet, sad and thoughtful novel to fill a bleak January or February. Set in New York, it weaves a list of characters around a mildly mild plot to sell a pair of the Ruby Slippers made famous… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 4, 2014

Gary Graham, New York designer (one for you Kate Bush, if you’re reading)

By Amanda

I’m in New York this week so just a quick post today, showing you inside the fabulous Gary Graham Tribeca store. You’ve got to love a designer that gives you animal headed mannequins set in a festive pine forest. My… Read More

UncategorizedFebruary 12, 2014

Barney’s trans gender campaign

By Jane

The fashion industry is generally tolerant and gay friendly but not always open to embracing transgender models. Over the last few years however this has been changing, with Givenchy featuring Brazilian transgender model Lea T in Riccardo in its ad… Read More

Health & HappinessSeptember 2, 2012

Agespiration US style

By Jane

Watching old people, observing how they dress, interact with their friends and family and fit into society has become something of a hobby of mine. The older one gets the more you notice old people and how they live, as… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 3, 2009

New New Yorker: Take a walk on the wild side

By The Womens Room

I’ve been meeting lots of aging New Yorkers recently and discovering a very cool and stylish maturing world here in the city of shows, to quote my darling Lou Reed, himself a sexagenerian. That sounds like I’ve met him doesn’t… Read More