Reading: Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
Video: The final season of Downton Abbey…and I’ve recently gotten hooked on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Audio: Bowie, Bowie, Bowie.
Perfume Review: Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Albino
My latest post on Now Smell This is a perfume review of Albino (A Study in White), a new release from Dawn Spencer Hurwitz. You can read it here.
André Courrèges (1923-2016)
André Courrèges died this week at the age of 92.
Even if you don’t know his name, you’re familiar with the look he helped to launch: mod, space-age, youthquake, futuristic…sharp lines and bright colors…transparent materials and white boots and minis and slim pants and visors.
Here’s a line-up of looks as photographed for LIFE in 1968…
Throwback Thursday: Some of My Old Perfume Bottles
I was sorting through some files in my computer and I came across this photo I took a few years ago. It shows some of my old perfume bottles, dating from 1987 through 1995.
From left to right, they are: Kenzo Parfum d’Été, Romeo Gigli, Laura Ashley No. 1, and Oscar de la Renta Ruffles.
I’d probably still wear any of these fragrances today. Well, maybe not the Ruffles, which was quite fruity-sweet, as I remember. But the others, yes.
Le Couvent des Minimes 3-in-1 Micellar Water
I’m trying to keep my skincare simple these days, due to a recurring case of facial dermatitis that’s been bothering me for months. (It an allergy? Is it caused by stress? Who knows?) That means minimal product, but I still need to cleanser and to remove my makeup at night—and Le Couvent des Minimes’s 3-in-1 Micellar Water came along at just the right time.
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