You should probably know that we only wear jewellery that reflects our state of mind.
Today, for example, you should be wary of our unpredictable edges and extreme highs and lows.
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Every girl deserves her Flashdance moment
Friday, July 23, 2010
Currently channeling Melanie Griffith by day and Jennifer Beals by night.
I am not gay, I just like pearls
Monday, July 12, 2010
Someone told us that genuine Pearly Kings and Queens get free pie and mash for life. We think this is a cultural stereotype. They clearly prefer ice cream.
You didn’t think we could fit in
another Mad Men reference?
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Never underestimate us.
Horrockses Fashions: Off the peg style in the ’40s and ’50s , is on at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London until October 2010. While we’ll maintain that we’re more Joan than Betty, we’re not adverse to admiring a good circle skirt and all-over floral print. These are clothes to mix Martinis in.
Byov loves a good twin portrait
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
The Alice Neel retrospective opened at the Whitechapel Gallery in London today. If you don’t know her work, read her story - it involves multiple penises and the Communist Party.
byov makes things happen
Monday, June 28, 2010
So we read The Alchemist (a bit) and had some issues with The Witch of Portobello (a lot), but when Mon Oncle is showing at the beautifully, crumbly, sun-damaged Cinema Rif in Tangier, on the very day we roll up, parched and hungry – mere days after blogging about it – we think we believe in some kind of destiny…we’re not sure what kind…but still…
Yves Saint Laurent Blues
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
No Talitha Getty, no opium, no kaftans, no sex parties, and most certainly no Karl. But still the most beautiful fall in Marrakesh.
Mon Oncle est Votre Oncle
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
We were turned onto Jacques Tati’s film, Mon Oncle, for the first time today. We think we’ve finally found the house that fulfills all our modernist fantasies – if there’s anywhere you can eat lemon soup and wear white, it’s here.
And don’t even get us started on the woman in red.
Massive accessory envy.
The très magnifique life of Victoire Dior
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Monday: Lunch with Karl – I can’t finish all my lemon soup so we share, and talk about the best way to kill an Eskimo. I don’t need carbs when I’m with Karl.
Tuesday: Madame Bruni calls – always got trouble with the garçon that one. I tell her what I tell all my girls – get some Dior, write some folk songs and chill the eff out.
Wednesday: I call in to Le Marais, and drink Remy Martin at La Perle and smoke at least neuf Gauloises before I realise I have to rush off for a fitting on Avenue Montaigne. Monsieur Galliano hates me to be late.
Thursday: Life is fabulous and exhausting today. I wear three new dresses and change my shoes twice. I smoke cigarettes on the terrace of the George V and drink aperitifs with Pierre and Jean-Luc. I dance at Le Baron, kiss pretty garçons and all before midnight. Jean-Luc wants to take me home…it’s so soon…and then I ask myself, what would Karl do in this situation?
Friday: Jean-Luc leaves before dawn and a day of pleasantness and relaxation ensues. I drink eau mineral and think only nice thoughts; Sonia Rykiel stripes, Le Tour Eiffel, new shoes and pain aux raisins. Later, I skip through the flea market at Vanves, cigarette in-hand, buying pretty embroideries and swathes of toile de jouy.
Saturday: I wake early and take petit dejeuner on the bank of the river – trois Gauloises, and a café noir. I wear a beret and a book and my black dress with the black bow and I channel Chanel.
Sunday: A morning spent brushing the cat is a morning well spent. Afternoon tea is spent at Laduree where Karl and I eat only lilac food. Jean-Luc calls, twice, but I decline to answer. This girl is busy.
Goodbye Rio
Monday, May 24, 2010
Jesus was too busy to see us, we watched men in speedos shop for groceries and we drank champagne at the copacabana palace. Then it was time to go home.
Hello Rio
Sunday, May 23, 2010
How to make the perfect Caipirinha
* 1 lime cut in quarters
* sugar to taste
* 6 tablespoons of Cachaca
* crushed ice
* ipanema beach
You So Would
Sunday, May 16, 2010
As birthday presents go, we’ll take an evening in with The Grinder any day. Anyone for a Dirty Martini?
Happy Anniversary ♥
Sunday, May 16, 2010
due to relocation year 2 is all about the girl guide. more details soon.
love byov.
cats skills
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Fishing for our supper with the sun in our hair; talking to the horses with mud between our toes; sitting on the porch with a cat on our lap, and a cat at our feet, and a cat at the window; nursing a gin; winning at poker; dancing in wellys; painting our nails; carving our names; reading a book; baking a pie; sewing a quilt; passing the time. (byov disclaimer: this is not a poem, so don’t act like it is) www.vanishingcatskills.us
New Women’s things #6
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
A bag for the return of the simple days; when all you need is a biro in your pocket, the sun on your back and a spring in your step. And £1,250 in the bank.
I’ll have whatever she’s having
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The Grace Jones diet:
*Red wine
*Sushi
*Oysters
“We drink because it’s what men do”
Monday, April 26, 2010
Ingredients for an Old Fashioned Whisky Cocktail
* 2oz Bourbon any bourbon will do. Jim Beam works well
* 1oz sugar syrup
* A dash of Angostura bitters
* Ice
1. Fill an old fashioned glass (a basic tumbler) with ice.
2. Add 2 oz of bourbon
3. Add 1 oz of sugar syrup
4. Stir for 30 seconds
5. Add dash of Angostura bitters
6. Stir for 30 seconds
7. Serve
This year, next year, some time, never
Monday, April 26, 2010
Hackney in the springtime is exactly a bit like a Monet painting.
Betty Draper eat your heart out
Thursday, April 15, 2010
We were lucky enough to attend the preview of the Grace Kelly exhibition at the V&A this morning (it opens this weekend)…and while we KNOW a 20-inch waist is nigh-on impossible to achieve, and we really should not condone it…. those dresses did look damn good.
Be sure to pay the exhibition a visit for a lovely lesson in Dressing Lady.
Shoe Love #44
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
The money shot
Thursday, March 25, 2010
It doesn’t matter that we think one of the eggs might have been past its use by date…or that we used granulated sugar instead of caster…or that we made enough crumble topping to feed a small army…Just LOOK AT IT!!!