Chutzpah's Weekly Barometer

A light hearted look back over the past week’s good, bad and indifferent including the “don’t even go there’s”.
LOVING Dolce & Gabbana's Limited Edition Ruby Collection  Released in time for Christmas and so beautiful it hurts, it's just what every vintage crazy girl needs in her handbag.  Another stunning release from Signors Dolce & Gabbana that highlights their attention to detail. The fiery

Get set for Vogue's Fashion Night Out: Fashion's Best Night of the Year

Readers, if you really want to see and experience how the fashion industry parties when they put on their Louboutin and Charlotte Olympia heels then you can. 
Vogue's Fashion Night Out is a tremendous global celebration of the fashion industry that has a serious message - it announces the launch of new season in store boosting attention and sales in an industry that has a £21 billion turnover in

Chutzpah's Weekly Barometer

A light hearted look back over the past week’s good, bad and indifferent including the “don’t even go there’s”.

LOVING

CHLOE EAU DE PARFUM, ROSE EDITION An archetypal sparkling Spring fragrance that's feel good to wear, now dressed up with a bright pink ribbon.  Too cute and irresistibly rose pink.  (£52 for 50ml)
BASTYAN  -  Tonia Bastyan constantly delivers on luxe desirable separates

New York, New York - Halston, Marc and Donna.

I know...I know.  I'm guilty.  I like a bit of sparkly spangle.  Especially if it happens to be New York, Halston and reeking of '70's disco drama.  Don't blame me, blame it on the boogie.  Obsessed with Studio 54 and hedonism, I've just spent too darn much of my life in cocktail bars and clubs trying (and often failing) to emulate some sort of nonplussed sparkle chic.  Talking of which,

New York, New York. Prabal Gurung, Alexander Wang & DVF

Prabel Gurung cut his teeth at NYC fashion house, Bill Blass.  I say that as the chic, streamlined colour block outfits with sleek accessories, hair and make-up at his latest S/S '11 show showed he was a stickler for the uptown Manhattanite.

Delivering on poppy 'look at me' in your face colours should come as no surprise from a man who dresses First Lady, Michelle Obama.  Her rise in the best

Maxing out

It's the photograph that has inspired thousands of fashion collections: Patrick Lichfield's image caught Talitha Getty on a Marrakech rooftop with her husband, John Paul Getty, at the beginning of 1969, when the couple were the very embodiment of hippie-de-luxe glamour that has inspired every since. Obviously it still has resonance. It seems that hippie de luxe and the maxi dresses are