Upping the Coat Game Wearing Babyghost jacket, Coach dress, Western shirt, patchwork ankle boots and Saddle bag – Photographs from Getty, Style du Monde and Join Comb >> I don't meant to cause people migraines with my pattern mashing, but I just can't help myself, especially when I was presented with some of...Published on January 16 2016, 14:58Upping the Coat Game  

Insulation Inspiration Style Bubble >> Another short trip notched up in New York meant another trip to Paintbox, not with palm trees, pineapples or other emoji-esque motifs that are so de rigueur of summer manicures. Instead, pastel speckled foam came to mind – sometimes called compressed or recycled foam – and normally used as...Published on July 1 2015, 20:28Insulation Inspiration Style Bubble  

OPI Hidden Prism Sandra's Closet Move into the light and experience the rainbow prismatic magic of OPI's Hidden Prism Collection for Summer 2020. Paint a pastel rainbow with 12 new colors in different formulas that will leave nails radiating in the sunlight with glitter finishes, and glowing in the moonlight with shiny...Published on May 28 2020, 11:54OPI Hidden Prism Sandra's Closet  

My Look: Now Showing Sandra's Closet Now showing at Sandra's Closet: "The back pack is back". At least this is what is written on the cassette sticker with DIY scrawl on my newest collector's item: the Louis Vuitton S/S 2020 Video Tape Clutch. Yesterday I had a quick stopover in Zurich to change my luggage as I am leaving today...Published on August 6 2020, 18:40My Look: Now Showing Sandra's Closet  

Buckle Up Style Bubble "If you get the right bag, an It bag, a hit bag, your label moves into a different league." So said the fictional British designer from that guilty-pleasure read from years back, Fashion Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones (free e-book to skim read if you want to kill a few hours). Since...Published on September 15 2015, 15:48Buckle Up Style Bubble  

Pink Power Style Bubble When a magazine came round to shoot the house last week, I sprung into visual merchandising mode, ensuring my multiple stacks of stuff had some semblance of colour and textural order.There's no way of minimising the amount of fashion paraphernalia that I have accumulated over the years.Perhaps...Published on February 13 2016, 10:00Pink Power Style Bubble  

The Beauty of Machina Whilst everyone was poring over whose dress lit up (literally) the red carpet or who out sci-fied each other with their latex limbs, cut-away hemlines and metallic arm guards at the Met Gala on Monday, I was eager to see what the consensus was of the Manus x Machina exhibition, the latest...Published on May 7 2016, 20:31The Beauty of Machina  

British Fashion Council, Bags of Ethics team up to offer designer face coverings for charity Halpern, Julien Macdonald, Liam Hodges, Mulberry, Raeburn, and Rixo have created non-medical masks, retailing at £15 for three, raising funds for the NHS, the BFC Foundation, and Wings of Hope Filed by Lucire staff/June 5, 2020/23.02 The six designs, in order: Halpern, Julien Macdonald, Liam...Published on June 8 2020, 21:59British Fashion Council, Bags of Ethics team up to offer designer face coverings for charity  

Bright Old Things Style Bubble I found it difficult yesterday to clomp about my day, bashing out words about new collections and so on and so forth. That sounds trite and disingenuous but it's true. I went down to Trafalgar Square at 6pm to join the vigil and held my keyboard (didn't have a pen...) aloft in the air for an...Published on January 9 2015, 16:32Bright Old Things Style Bubble  

For Cruise 2021, Nicolas Ghesquiere Gives Louis Vuitton Monogram a Fun Makeover For Nicolas Ghesquiere, who is used to throwing elaborate, buzz worthy fashion shows, this year's Cruise 2021 presentation looked a whole lot different. The designer took the last few months as a reset and used this time to create a paired down, more relaxed collection that put a focus on the...Published on July 17 2020, 19:26For Cruise 2021, Nicolas Ghesquiere Gives Louis Vuitton Monogram a Fun Makeover  

Soap & Glory Drop In The Lotion - for soft skin that smells like summer! Give skin an instant moisture hit with: Soap & Glory Drop In The Lotion Lightweight Body Lotion - 500ml - $16 - an ultra-absorbent hydrating body lotion with a formula containing coconut and almond oils, shea butter, vitamin A and green tea extract for beautifully soft skin. What you will love...Published on July 7 2020, 20:43Soap & Glory Drop In The Lotion - for soft skin that smells like summer!  

Moonage Daydream Style Bubble Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah! David Bowie's lyrics of Moonage Daydream provides the perfect lyric prism in which to view the latest Dior show. It's why it was one of the tracks...Published on January 30 2015, 17:23Moonage Daydream Style Bubble  

Once Upon a Shoe >> eBay crawling is a dangerous slippery slope. eBay crawling at 3am in the morning when you're awake with jet lag having just landed into New York leads you from looking at things that you actually wanted (search terms "Balenciaga runway", "Junya Watanabe" and "John Galliano") to looking at...Published on August 25 2015, 13:54Once Upon a Shoe  

At Venezia: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romola Garai and Miss Marx, Mare fuori, and Mandibules premières Iosip Mihail Day four at the 77ª Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica di Venezia, the Venice Film Festival, saw the Corradi Cinema Lounge at the Ausonia Hungaria host director Susanna Nicchiarelli and actress Romola Garai, there for the première of their film, Miss Marx, a biopic about...Published on September 10 2020, 21:40At Venezia: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romola Garai and Miss Marx, Mare fuori, and Mandibules premières  

How to Make Change The events of the past week have been difficult to watch and yet critical to witness if we truly want to move toward shaping a better world. We have a lot of work to do in this country to end racism. The first step for many is perhaps acknowledging that it exists and to see the many ways we...Published on June 10 2020, 19:00How to Make Change  

Layers of Gucci Style Bubble Last Saturday, I did my usual Milan Fashion Week Montenapoleone scout, bouncing from store to store and then finding sanity inside the pistachio-hued Pasticceria Marchesi, where nothing bad could possibly happen. Inside the Gucci store, a woman in her mid forties was trying on a deliciously...Published on March 24 2016, 16:59Layers of Gucci Style Bubble  

Trending: White Boots Sandra's Closet A total '90s must-have, white boots are officially again a wardrobe fixture – now's the time to shop the new-season favorites. There are few shoes more versatile than a white boot, a style which can truly be worn all year round, whatever is happening with the weather. In spring, they can be...Published on October 20 2020, 07:00Trending: White Boots Sandra's Closet  

Sartorial Denim Style Bubble I challenge you to find someone who is more enthusiastic about tufts wool "tops" (the stuff that a sheep's fleece is processed into before it gets spun into yarn) than Laura Lusuardi, the longtime global fashion director of Max Mara. At the launch of Max Mara's Woolmark collection at their Old...Published on June 14 2017, 21:04Sartorial Denim Style Bubble  

Fashionable Heart: June 2020 Faves Here's a Saturday post, though technically it's a late Friday post. I had plans of getting this up yesterday. My internet connection had other plans, so Saturday it is! I did not get a favorites post up last month, so some of these just kind of continued into June. Seeing as it is Saturday and...Published on July 8 2020, 20:03Fashionable Heart: June 2020 Faves  

The Art of being a Flâneur "This stroller spots the novel in the humdrum, the unseen in the deja vu, the faraway in the local. The flâneur gathers and gleans like a bee among flowers." Pierre Alexis Dumas in the introduction to the latest S/S 15 issue of the in-house magazine Le Monde D'Hermès Flâneur. It's a French...Published on April 4 2015, 19:34The Art of being a Flâneur  

Chanel shows Mademoiselle Privé Bouton watch collection The humble button becomes the centre of Chanel's latest haute horlogerie collection Filed by Lucire staff/July 30, 2020/11.20 Further applause for Chanel for keeping up a good pace of new releases despite the pandemic—it's no doubt a mixture of deep pockets and a desire to be one of the few...Published on August 1 2020, 15:42Chanel shows Mademoiselle Privé Bouton watch collection  

Gardening ideas for a stay at home summer *Contains affiliate links This has been a difficult year for many of us, but it seems like there is finally light at the end of the tunnel. As we slowly move out of lockdown procedures, it is time to start embracing some elements normal life again while others may take time, such as quick...Published on July 9 2020, 13:21Gardening ideas for a stay at home summer  

My Look: Under Construction Sandra's Closet I am moving houses at the moment. The only problem is that the new house is not ready yet and completely under construction. It is a fact, there is no way you can live there. Therefore I need to move in an interim solution and store some of my stuff. No fun, I can assure you that. However, I...Published on November 13 2020, 21:42My Look: Under Construction Sandra's Closet  

In the Country Style Bubble >> We've been taking a lot of little "mini" trips.I say "mini" but they become gargantuan when a six month old (when I say half a year, that somehow makes it sound a lot longer) is in tow.We've done more travelling than the average mit-newborn family, in a bid to gently nudge at the realms of...Published on August 14 2017, 21:02In the Country Style Bubble  

Venezia day 3: Mădălina Ghenea, Francesca Sofia Novello, Karina Nigay, Eleonora Bernardi Zizola Iosip Mihail On day 3 of the 77ª Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica di Venezia, Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent and Notting Hill director Roger Michell were present at both the Corradi Cinema Lounge and the red carpet for the film The Duke, which tells the story of a man who...Published on September 9 2020, 21:22Venezia day 3: Mădălina Ghenea, Francesca Sofia Novello, Karina Nigay, Eleonora Bernardi Zizola