Posts Tagged ‘Paris’

The most delicious hot chocolate, with my mum in a cafe in Paris. Yum…

Christian Dior:

Designer Peter Copping for Nina Ricci:

Marchesa:

I am at this moment in Paris – the city you just can’t stop taking photos of – and there will be many a photo to come on this blog, but in the meantime, here’s a taste with this little compilation of the many textures to be savored at the Chateau de Versailles. What a wonderful day we had! Oh the opulence, oh the grandeur, more photos to come!

Can’t wait for my holiday in Paris with my mum next week! I haven’t seen her for about 10 months (she lives in Dubai) and won’t see her again until who knows when. Plus it’s a holiday – no working, no dancing, no commitments! Not that I’m complaining right now – I just arrived in Marseilles for the Provence Swing Dance Festival. Weather seems warm and I get a full night’s rest in my hotel before the festival begins tomorrow, quite a luxury!

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For anyone like me who has studied the Harlem Renaissance at school or university, from whatever angle (art, literature, music), then you have probably read Nancy Cunard’s “Negro: An Anthology”. It might even have been your textbook. But what you might not know is that Nancy Cunard herself was sheer glamour. She was the British heiress to the Cunard shipping line fortune, and abandoned her societal responsibilities to skip off to Paris in the 1920s to live the jazz life.