Award-winning writer Carolyn Enting débuts first novel, The Medallion of Auratus
Award-winning writer Carolyn Enting (left)—whose work has graced our pages—has published her first novel, a labour of love called The Medallion of Auratus, now available at Amazon. Years in the making, Enting’s children’s book takes the reader on an other-worldly journey, already acclaimed by Meg Matthews of the Brancott Estate World of Wearable Art […]
Angela Lansbury, Penelope Keith become Dames in New Year Honours’ List
Eva Rinaldi/Creative Commons 2·0 Hugo Bernand/Cartier Top Angela Lansbury, who receives a DBE in the New Year Honours’ List, announced today. Above Katherine Jenkins receives an OBE for her contribution to music and services to charity. Actresses Angela Lansbury and Penelope Keith are to become Dames in the New Year Honours’ List. Lansbury, 88, best […]
Forbidden fruit that’s fresh as ever
Literature that’s long been ripe for the picking (or picking-on) is harvested in earnest for the PEN Center, a literary organization advocating the freedom of expression around the world. Hollywood risk-takers like director John Landis, literature critic Tom Lutz, novelist Natasha Dean, and actors Rénée Felice Smith, Julian Sands, Kevin McKidd and Illeana Douglas […]
Dame Elizabeth Taylor: a style icon remembered
We’ve thought about it and other than praising her charity work raising money for Aids, there isn’t a better tribute we can make to the late, great Dame Elizabeth Taylor, DBE, than showing her at her peak. Below is a video of her in Las Vegas with then-husband Eddie Fisher, in 1959. This video […]
Gok Wan returns to TV with new show on January 18
Gok’s Roadshow will première on Channel 4 on January 18, with a six-part series. Stylist and author Gok Wan (whose autobiography, Through Thick and Thin [left], recently hit bookshelves) will ‘take over an entire town with his pop-up catwalk,’ says the production company, Remarkable Television, part of Endemol. ‘He’ll be treating the local community […]
US–New Zealand couple wins Michael Hill’s Ultimate Engagement Ring competition
Michael Hill Jeweller‘s international competition, ‘The Ultimate Engagement Ring: Search for the World’s Best Couple’, has found its winner: Shariyah and Cameron Morris of New Zealand. The Morrises have received their prize, a 22 ct princess-cut diamond ring, from TV celebrity Kim Kardashian and jeweller Michael Hill at Lavo Restaurant on East 58th Street […]
Channelling Hemingway in Runtime
Last December a young, audacious Delhi-based technology company approached me to create an unusual brand extension for them. They wanted to commission a novel, set at a Delhi-based technology company. ‘We need Hemingway,’ they said. Of course, as a six-time finalist for the International Imitation Hemingway Competition, my interest in the project soared. Wasn’t the […]
Justine Picardie to launch Coco Chanel biography at Port Eliot Flower Show
Lipnitzki Above Coco Chanel, photographed in 1937. Author and former features director of British Vogue, Justine Picardie, will launch her new book, Coco Chanel: the Legend and the Life, at the inaugural Port Eliot Flower Show, part of the established Port Eliot Festival, on July 25. Picardie will be talking about Chanel, Lady of the […]
Summer Rayne Oakes promotes Portico in new TVCs
Here’s our editor-at-large, sustainability strategist and author of Style, Naturally, Summer Rayne Oakes, in two advertisements (one English, one French) for Portico. Portico’s products, which include cotton towels, rugs and bedding, are organic and environmentally friendly—the primary reason behind Summer Rayne’s endorsements. It is Summer Rayne’s voice in the English commercial; an actor does […]
Payless collaborates with Summer Rayne Oakes on green footwear line
Payless ShoeSource has announced plans to launch the first affordable green footwear line due in stores early next year and that it has signed an agreement with Summer Rayne Oakes, Discovery Network’s Planet Green fashion and beauty expert, author of Style, Naturally: the Savvy Shopping Guide to Sustainable Fashion & Beauty (Chronicle Books, February 2009) […]
