45th Post - January Overview
Finally, here are my recommendations for January, hope you enjoy them and find them interesting to watch, listen and eat. In the meantime, January has a lot to offer especially in London, so head this month and take in all the best new events, exhibitions and best events in the capital.
They say the early bird gets the worm. Inspiring motivation. If you're the bird. The worm, however, has no idea when her future will be plucked away by the next airborne attacker. The Beatles sang, Living is easy with eyes closed. But even with our eyes open we all still have blind spots. Or maybe we're just looking in the wrong place. But when we finally do see the light, it's Strawberry Fields Forever...
Finnish Rooftop Sauna:
The Queen Elizabeth Roof Gardens will be home to a Finnish sauna which overlooks the river and the London skyline, as part of Southbank Centre’s Wintertime festivities. Each 16-person session will last 70 minutes. There will also be changing and showering facilities and on hand sauna-experts as well as blankets and warming winter drinks at The Rooftop Bar for post-sauna sipping.
Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion:
The V&A has written the mother of all love songs to Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895-1972), and it’s one that will have you swooning over the Spanish fashion designer, too. The ground floor is dedicated to his craftsmanship, and will have fashion nerds in their element. Lovingly curated, it’s clear that the V&A want you to love Balenciaga as much as they do, and so have been at pains to prove just how ingenious the man was. Enlisting the help of students from the London College of Fashion to digitize his work, there are animations which show the intricacy of his pattern cutting. In addition, there’s a replica of his iconic cape-cum-skirt which you get to try on – it’ll do wonders for your social media feed. The upper floor is dedicated to his legacy and how he has shaped fashion. You can see his influence in the clever use of fabric in Simone Rocha’s embroidered vinyl coat-dress which references the incredible Balenciaga pink evening-coat, embellished with vibrant plastic discs on the lower floor. Or the babydoll dress from superlatively great Molly Goddard, which clearly has its starting point downstairs, with the master and his rejection of the waist. As Christian Dior said, ‘Haute couture is like an orchestra whose conductor is Balenciaga’. This exhibition shows that the fashion world is still playing to his tune.
But, if you feel like relaxing this month then put your feet up and enjoy Glamour magazine, full of celebrity gossip, style and secrets!! Hope you all enjoy my recommendations and have a great time in January... See you in February, when I'll be sharing style secrets, and places to go to on Valentines day as well as places to go and things to do to get you 'in the know' for 2017!!!
They say the early bird gets the worm. Inspiring motivation. If you're the bird. The worm, however, has no idea when her future will be plucked away by the next airborne attacker. The Beatles sang, Living is easy with eyes closed. But even with our eyes open we all still have blind spots. Or maybe we're just looking in the wrong place. But when we finally do see the light, it's Strawberry Fields Forever...
Finnish Rooftop Sauna:
The Queen Elizabeth Roof Gardens will be home to a Finnish sauna which overlooks the river and the London skyline, as part of Southbank Centre’s Wintertime festivities. Each 16-person session will last 70 minutes. There will also be changing and showering facilities and on hand sauna-experts as well as blankets and warming winter drinks at The Rooftop Bar for post-sauna sipping.
The V&A has written the mother of all love songs to Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895-1972), and it’s one that will have you swooning over the Spanish fashion designer, too. The ground floor is dedicated to his craftsmanship, and will have fashion nerds in their element. Lovingly curated, it’s clear that the V&A want you to love Balenciaga as much as they do, and so have been at pains to prove just how ingenious the man was. Enlisting the help of students from the London College of Fashion to digitize his work, there are animations which show the intricacy of his pattern cutting. In addition, there’s a replica of his iconic cape-cum-skirt which you get to try on – it’ll do wonders for your social media feed. The upper floor is dedicated to his legacy and how he has shaped fashion. You can see his influence in the clever use of fabric in Simone Rocha’s embroidered vinyl coat-dress which references the incredible Balenciaga pink evening-coat, embellished with vibrant plastic discs on the lower floor. Or the babydoll dress from superlatively great Molly Goddard, which clearly has its starting point downstairs, with the master and his rejection of the waist. As Christian Dior said, ‘Haute couture is like an orchestra whose conductor is Balenciaga’. This exhibition shows that the fashion world is still playing to his tune.
But, if you feel like relaxing this month then put your feet up and enjoy Glamour magazine, full of celebrity gossip, style and secrets!! Hope you all enjoy my recommendations and have a great time in January... See you in February, when I'll be sharing style secrets, and places to go to on Valentines day as well as places to go and things to do to get you 'in the know' for 2017!!!
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