Mimi Holliday launches Spring/Summer online pre Christmas

Christmas is coming and this ensures that we will be subjected to a whole host of inappropriate lingerie suggestions for gifts from the media so it's no wonder than the male population wanders aimlessly on the Eve of Christmas and then tends to plump for items that their other halves will instantly ditch/swap/hide away for ever, and that's pre-supposing that the sizing is right.That's why I offer

Dior's Divine Releases for Spring'12

Oh Dior...you really are rocking my boat en ce moment. A saunter around the Spring Press Day  had the make-up slaves amongst us longing for these new releases.
Not only have you indulged my perfume addiction with the release of the gorgeous Collection Privee by Perfume Creator, Francois Demachy (see former post HERE) but you have added to it with the most subtly gorgeous of perfumes that's more

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”.
LOVINGGUIDO PAULO'S BARETTE HAIR LOOK FOR ALEXANDER MCQUEEN A/W'11  Wow!  Silver and black barette clips are used to esconce the head to create a modernist Joan of Arc armour helmet. Strong, powerful and easy to replicate.
KREAYSHAWN 'GUCCI GUCCI' - We might be late to the Kreayshawn

Fornasetti, Masters of Style release new Home Fragrance designs

I'm obsessed with Fornasetti -  the style, the humour, the design, the attention to detail, the class.  It's no wonder that these rich images find themselves stumbling into fashion, being the inspiration for many fashion and textile designers.


For the uninitiated, Piero Fornasetti was a Milanese painter, sculptor, interior decorator, engraver of books and a creator of more than 11,000

Maison Martin Margiela's new Untitled L'Eau

Perfumer Daniela Andrier broke the mould when she created MMM's Untitled - Here was an intelligent fragrance to wake up the senses, smelling of clean fresh Swiss air with a slice of metallic tinge to ensure its appeal to men as well as women.  When I first tried the fragrance at its UK launch, I described it as, “a breathe of expensive fresh air and a fashion lover's antidote to the flowery

Bored of the norm? Ultra luxe lingerie from Hanky Panky

I may have deplored the Madonna single of the same title, during her dodgy 'Dick Tracy' period.  (I mean, "Hanky Panky...nothing like a good spanky...." *rolls eyes*) but the exclusive, cult lingerie brand of the same name is producing ten unique, retro style bralettes and famous low-rise thongs, heavily embellished with sparkling Swarovski crystals and exclusively available at Selfridges.  

Dior launches La Collection Privée Christian Dior exclusively at Selfridges

Wow!  This launch really was one that fragrance floosies everywhere were looking forward to -   The exclusive launch of a whole range of Private Collection Dior fragrances that have been long in development by Dior's Perfumer Creator, Francois Demachy.
Dior believed that creating a fragrance was as time consuming and creatively demanding as creating couture, a belief that Demachy shares.  As

Tom Ford releases the Neroli Portofino Bath Collection

Regular readers of this blog will know of my infatuation with Tom Ford's beauty line and fragrances:  from the lightness and softly veiled impact of each of the White Musks (Musk Pure and White Suede being favourites) to the super creamy,  Private Blend Lip Colour collection with ingredients such as Murumuru butter and chamomilla flower oil and the the sheer unabridged, heavy headiness of the

Chanel launches Les Exclusifs in handbag friendly size.

Beige's smooth sharp sweetness wafts over you on application.   Chanel's byword is its distinction and its archetypal class with a Capital C, just like the double linked C logo.  The last fragrance launched in Les Exclusifs de Chanel series in 2008, Beige, was worth the wait.  So why the review now?  Good question ladies and gentleman.  Les Exclusifs de Chanel have realised that there's a

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

Eylure ready to wear lashes  Yes, I know I have just trialed M2 Beaute lash (terrific results btw) but one really needs to bat lashes enough to cause a tailwind at the remaining Christmas and New Year shindigs.  I love the non pfaff Eylure pre-glued, ready to wear lashes (

Tranforming unruliness. Hair not Behaviour.

I had forgotten that I had agreed to the generous offer of having my hair teased and treated at the Cobella Salon in Selfridges and to trial the Global Keratin Hair Taming treatment with Juvexin, which had only just been launched in the UK in October. 
Oh, I was looking forward to it and the challenge of taming unruliness and frizziness but a week spent in the airport hanger conditions at the

Walk into a Hermes Bag at Selfridges and experience the luxury.

I've been pretty lax of late.  There's only two more days to have the giant Hermes bag experience at Selfridges.  Hermes and Selfridges have come together to present the Kellydoscope, a unique customer experience that showcases, using video technology and special effects, the life of an accessory inside a Kelly handbag.

This fully immersive luxury experience allows the individual to walk

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

'Later with Jools Holland' (BBC2)  Always a brilliant mix of artists that always introduces me to someone new.  Love it as much as I did 'The Old Grey Whistle Test'.  Now, if only *that* would come back.

The Dior Minaudiere  All that glistens may not be true gold but may, 

Hobbling in Heels at LFW

Apart from being slightly envious of all those rushing from London to Milan for the next round of S/S '11 catwalk shows, the post LFW days have left me and hundreds of others with 'fashion flu', LFW comedown and a serious case of 'I hate all my clothes and need a new wardrobe'itis'.

A selection of memories include:-

- Sitting next to Sophie Ellis Bextor having my hair done at the Jimmy Choo

Triumph Inspiration Award 2010 - Access All Areas

This is a Chutzpah first.  Live blogging from the Global Triumph Inspiration Awards backstage.  What better kick off London Fashion Week than with a hyper glamorous show with the worlds best student designers, all vying for the winning prize of fifteen thousand Euros and a chance to have their design made to sell exclusively in Triumph stores.
Tonight’s panel will include famed photographer,

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

Pantene Light Great idea. Great shampoo and conditioner.

Selfridges shoe galleries The biggest shoe area in the world. Fancy that! Well, I do actually. Very much as it happens. See my shoe story live at http://www.selfridges.com/en/StaticPage/SG-Stories/


The Rogano

The Forever Shop at the Selfridges Concept Store

From 12th July to 15th August 2010, Selfridges (or 'Selfishes' as my friends and I lovingly refer to it) presents the Forever Shop in the Wonder Room Concept Store. This is hoped to be a celebration of the savoir-faire and wisdom that come with age. and offers an alternative to the hunger for fast fashion and the ongoing hunt for the emerging or undiscovered. The concept will consider the

Prelude to Autumn: Wonderwood by Comme des Garcons

Follow my blog with bloglovinYou know its that time of year when its mid festival season, Wimbledon's on TV, there's scorching heat and mugginess in London and the designer stores are already ridding themselves of Spring/Summer by tempting us with 50% off sales and sneaking in loads of Autumn/Winter 2010, when we're still in flip flops and looking distinctly unglam. I visited Selfridges yesterday

The Blue Dahlia Collection from Estee Lauder

Follow my blog with bloglovinFor those of you out there who know your summer brights from your muted shades in eye and lip colours, this one is for you. Make up giants, Estee Lauder, have teamed with world renowned make-up artist, Tom Pecheux who says, "Bright colour not only makes a fashion statement, but it also brings happiness and playfulness to the face." (NB. He should see ME on a Monday