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It’s Tom Ford Tuesday in today’s Espresso Shot of News…

Tom Ford Is Back & Better Than Ever 

After six years away from the world of womenswear, Tom Ford is back in what people are calling his best work yet. 

Making his return in the Vogue US December 2010 issue, Ford is pictured with models wearing his highly anticipated spring 2011 collection. Showing the first glimpse of the collection, which was shot by Steven Meisel, models; Carolyn Murphy, Anja Rubik, Joan Smalls, Stella Tennant, Amber Valletta, Karen Elson and Edita Vilkeviciute, look spectacular in pure seventies glamour.

The collection was originally shown in top secret in New York on September 12th to just a select group. Journalists were banned from revealing any details of the collection until now. Modelling for Ford that day were some of his most stylish and beautiful friends. These included; Beyoncé Knowles, Lauren Hutton, Julianne Moore, Natalia Vodianova, Karlie Kloss and Abbey Lee Kershaw, amongst others.

Of his return, Ford said: “There’s a continuity from what I was doing at YSL at the end; that’s the customer. It’s about individuality. Real clothes, real women. For a fashionable woman aged 25 to 75. That’s why I literally put many of my own muses in the show.” 

 

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c’est la mode / That’s the fashion

Achieving Eternal Elegance

On a recent trip to Paris, I brought these fashion postcards. I love the fashions of yesteryear as well as the elegance, charisma and style of each photo’s subjects (regardless of the decade they were photographed in). While considering their ‘jena se qua’ or something special you cannot quite place, I started thinking of elegance – what it is, who has it and how to achieve it?

Elegance never goes out of style. Yet natural elegance is difficult to emulate. It is innate. What makes someone elegant? Is it their clothes, style, behaviour? Maybe it is how they hold themselves and their self-belief? Icons of poise and sophistication – Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Jackie Kennedy, to name but a few – ticked all of those boxes. And their elegance is timeless – continuing to inspire and delight today. After consideration, my prerequisites of elegance are:

>> Authentic to oneself
>> Confident, positive and happy
>> A beautiful smile
>> Graceful with prefect posture
>> Gracious, polite and kind
>> Always clean, neat and fresh
>> Style – always choosing fashion that looks best on them
>> Wearing clothes of the highest quality available to them
>> Making an effort to look their best whatever the occasion
>> Fragrance, make-up, hair and accessories are an extension of their style
>> Sets an example in fashion, etiquette and sophistication
>> Is completely unique

What is elegance to you? Who do you consider to be elegant? xx

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“The best colour in the whole world, is the one

that looks good on you!” – Coco Chanel

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