Nothing Left Unsaid
Is it a book? Is it a film? It’s both actually. Anderson Cooper and his mother Gloria Vanderbilt are laying down their memoirs for public consumption of a fabulous life lived via tragedy. Vanderbilt...
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The physical embodiment of Woodstock vibes combined with the frenzy of bohemia; that was Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. Resplendent in fringing, velvet, paisley and platform boots, Nicks was the best...
View ArticleColour Me Happy
William Eggleston (born July 27, 1939) was a pioneer of colour art photography and, lucky for us, we get to experience it at a brand new exhibition of Egglestlon’s work at the National Portrait...
View ArticleGirl In A Liberty Dress
‘Girl in a Liberty Dress’ by Clara Drummond is the winner of this year’s BP Portrait Award 2016. The competition is in it’s thirty-seventh year, twenty-seven of which has been sponsored by BP, the...
View ArticleTravelling At The Speed Of Light
‘Terence Donovan: Speed of Light’ is the first major retrospective of Donovan’s career which spanned fashion, advertising and portrait photography. In British photographic history the late Terence...
View ArticleGus Van Sant Icons
Gus Van Sant has a new book out called, fittingly, ‘Gus Van Sant: Icons’. The American film director famed for such luminary pictures as ‘Good Will Hunting’, ‘My Own Private Idaho’ and ‘Drugstore...
View ArticleMarisa Berenson
Gene Kelly taught her to dance, Andy Warhol photographed her wedding. Meet Marisa Berenson. Vittoria Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson (born February 15, 1947) is the daughter of the diplomat Robert...
View ArticleAllure Endures
“Vreeland – with a V! I say whenever I have to give my name over a telephone. V as in ‘victory’! V as in ‘violent’!” – Diana Vreeland. Vreeland made a name for herself in the forties, alongside Carmel...
View ArticleHorst’s Houses
Who among us would turn down the opportunity to look around the homes of some of the world’s most glamorous, interesting people? Well, Chapeau! were born nosy and thankfully this was the motivation...
View ArticlePiggy
“I remember he had all the props from window dressing at ‘John Stephen’ as well as Art Nouveau mannequins and statues draped in ropes of pearls which I wore to ‘Biba’s’ black and pink-themed New Year’s...
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