fragrance
Style for Christmas: She’s So Unusual
The Garb Wire’s themed ‘gift guide’ reflects who we are, crazed style obsessives who swing well to the left of the ordinary. For inspiration this year I selected album titles from Rolling Stone Magazine’s Top 500 Albums of all Time list published in 2012. The first edit, She’s So Unusual, is the name of Cyndi Lauper‘s debut album of […]
MoreSpring in Park Lane: Style Ideas for Spring
Anna Neagle, Britain’s sweetheart of the 1940s starred with Michael Wilding in Spring in Park Lane, a jaunty ‘upstairs-downstairs’ romantic comedy set in London. Who doesn’t live for a light upstairs-downstairs scandal? Pretty proper with a side of scotch A mix of textures, subdued colours with houndstooth, tortoiseshell, suede and beading. Quiet, self assured details. She belongs here. Pictured L-R: JY […]
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KENZO World: The New Fragrance
Obviously we can all relate to this ingenious KENZO fragrance ad, I mean masterpiece, directed by Spike Jonze and starring Margaret Qualley. I mean, if you read The Garb Wire, you obviously know how it feels to want to break out. This is branding excellence. Obviously it’s not to everyone’s taste, which is entirely the point.
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A Life Less Ordinary: The Garb Wire’s Spring Racing Edit
pictured: The Human Chameleon ‘Sweet Lady’ head piece. I’ve been to the Birdcage once. I’m not a fanatical race goer, but I do know style. I know what people are likely to wear – it’s a little like singing the chorus of a song you claim not to know. There are these medieval crowns that are […]
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Read: The Perfect Scent by Chandler Burr
The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York is a fascinating glimpse into the perfume industry by Chandler Burr, formerly the scent critic for T” The New York Times Style Magazine. Burr offers the reader a window into the fragrance industry from two staggeringly different perspectives, as he follows the creation of two perfumes; The […]
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