[ad_1] “Then there was the legendary Parisienne couturier Jean Patou in the 1920s who famously dressed tennis’ first female icon, Suzanne Lenglen, for court, causing a stir with shorter hems and bare arms.” It’s possibly no coincidence that Anna Wintour selected tennis as her sport of choice long ago and remains one of its best […]
[ad_1] For the first time in my life, I resisted the journalistic urge to investigate and instead asked myself: Do I really need to know? What if this time, I didn’t have a follow-up question? Do I need to bear witness to every grim piece of evidence signalling the decline of our fragile planet? Or, […]
[ad_1] The past burst into my life last week in the shape of a bundle of pale blue envelopes. There were 288 of them, edged with alternating red and navy arrows and imprinted with an Australian stamp and the postal charge, 10d: 10 pence back in the days before decimal currency. Like a magic retro […]