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Scarlett Johansson – Cover of Vogue

Scarlett Johansson “back in stride” and looking uber beautiful and extremely sexy! These photographs featured in the May issue of Vogue, capture her serene – classic beauty so well!

Scarlett Johansson in Vogue

After enduring heartache and a painful invasion of privacy, Scarlett Johansson is now having the time of her life. The blonde Venus talks to Jason Gay about her high-flying movie role and surprising new romance.

Scarlett Johansson is crying and holding a knife. This is not as scary as it sounds. It is afternoon in New York City, and Johansson is standing in the kitchen of Greer Nuttall, a Southern-raised chef who worked for the legendary Alice Waters. Nuttall is giving us a lesson in proper knife technique—thwap, thwap, thwap on a thick wooden cutting board—and it was idyllic until the onions. Johansson is an enthusiastic amateur chef, known to host lively dinner parties, but she and onions do not mix. Her tears come fast and freely, and I’m not talking about the kind of light mist that many of us get when chopping the pungent bulb. Forty seconds into an onion, and one of the most glamorous actresses alive is pink-eyed and sniffling and looking like she’s been asked to put a cat to sleep. ~ Quoted from Vogue.com

If you would like to read more about this beauty click over to Vogue.com

Fashion, Fashion, Lifestyle

My Fashion File – Temperley London by Alice Temperley

I saw a fashion show, on style TV, the other evening, featuring a range of Alice Temperley designs and instantly fell in love with her work. Her ultra-feminine designs and romantic flair appeal to my sense of fashion.

Alice Temperley was born on 22^nd July 1975; she grew up in Somerset on her parent’s cider farm before moving to London to study. She graduated from the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins before setting up her company “Temperley London”. She launched her fashion label “Temperley London” in 2000, along with her then boyfriend, now husband, Lars Bennigsen.

She cleverly crafted a niche for herself in the fashion industry with her attention to detail; focusing on beautiful fabrics and hand-finishes. She was hailed as “the designer making the biggest waves in British Fashion” by “American Vogue”.

Her designs, for me, are effortlessly elegant, creating a long-lean silhouette – with a side of goddess glamour!

“Temperley” produces four collections a year: Autumn/winter, Cruise, Spring/Summer, and Pre-fall. They have four stand-alone boutiques in London, New York, LA and Dubai. Their designs are also sold in 300 stores, in 37 different countries. They also ship items world-wide, yes even to South Africa – who knows I could be wearing an “Temperley London” design to my brother’s wedding in December! Well – maybe not, as the dresses start at around £800 pounds – it’s ok to dream!

For those of us with a smaller budget, the company launched a sister range called “Alice” in 2010. This more affordable, easy-to-wear range, inspired by the London girl of the moment, already has an international following. For a look at the current collection, go to “Alice by Temperley”.

Alice Temperley has also written and published a book called “True British” which catalogues the past ten years, which she has spent building the “Temperley brand”. The book includes mood-boards, detailing the colours and fabrics used to create the designs, along with pictures of the finished items. In the book she has also combined snippets of her personal life, along with the evolution of her fashion brand.

All the designs I have featured, in this post, are from the “Temperley London” Spring/ Summer 2012 collection. You can see more of the collection on the “Temperley London” website.

Image Source: Temperley London

Fashion, Fashion, Lifestyle

In Vogue

“In Vogue” – in the current fashion or style.

Vogue is certainly one of the number one fashion magazines of all time and an icon in the fashion industry. It was founded in the United States in 1892, under the creative inspiration of Arthur Baldwin Turnure. After his death in 1909; Condé Montrose Nast (founder of Condé Nast Publications) took over the publication of the magazine and has since grown it to what it is today.

These are a few of my favourite covers over the years,which have featured many of the iconic beauties of our time:

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