The one invitation I covet this LFW...

Beauty coverage is easy peasy to come by during the annual fashion weeks... that's not an issue. Everyone from bloggers to editors, stylists and PRs report on the good stuff, taking amazing pics so that those of us working remotely have a JPEG cornucopia to chose from when posting about said FWs afterwards. I thank those lovelies on the front line. With out you, where would our virtual reportage be!?

So, there's only one LFW invitation I was gunning for this year (not that I can make it anyway, but that's besides the point)... I didn't know it would be the only one I truly cared about until after I received it but, there it was and all I could do was endlessly Google all the names listed on it (not something I had done with the others). 

Mile End's 40 Winks (the place to stay in London if you're so avant-garde, so trendy you don't even neeeed to be seen in the lobby of Soho hotel or spilling out of the Groucho. You just want to get away from it all because, darling, the adoring public is just such a menace) has a pop-up shop for LFW this year and they are featuring, among other hyper-cool London designers, Katherine Wardropper. I COVET her fabric and leather creations (did you see the leather wall hanging above? Madness). If there were one designer I could afford and visit during LFW this year, it would be Ms Wardropper. 

Brigitte Bardot through a lens

She may have become a reclusive eccentric in her later years, but Brigitte Bardot did and still does represent an ideal of womanly beauty that I, to be honest, long to see today... maybe a touch too sex kitten too often, but it beats the hell out of the strange mix of androgynous boy-girl and quasi-prostitutes (a la Pussy Cat Dolls) that have replaced said former ideal of feminine beauty (I suppose at least there are a few now (ideals) instead of one).

If you're ready to see more than just 'interesting' beanpoles during London Fashion Week this fall, the James Hyman Gallery in London will be exhibiting 75 vintage prints of Bardot taken between 1956 and 1970 by famous photographers (and paparazzi).

Brigitte Bardot and The Original Paparazzi
September 3rd to October 3rd
James Hyman Gallery, 5 Savile Row, London W1S 3PD (020 7494 3857)

Aram Dikiciyan's ethereal beauty

I stumbled on this German photographer's recent exhibition whilst browsing the Japan Times last week. Ethereal. Eerie. Simple. Very beautiful.

Aram Dikiciyan was at Clear Gallery through today.

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