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Have you seen H&M new style guide? I just spent ages creating the perfect summer/spring outfits. It loads of fun but the only down side is there no online buying store!! When will H&M bring out an online store? Anyway check it out for yourself.

I been a good girl this year.

This year i have studied and worked really hard. I got myself into university this year and i been really stressed about my job this year – what with the event of what happen the end of last year.

I think i deserve a little little treat this year – nothing major – just something small.

Philosophy The Classic CookBook

Santa, look at all the pretty colours, gingerbread, red velvet cake and double rich hot choco to name a few.

Please put this under my fibre optic christmas tree and i shall reward you with mulled wine and mince pie, you can’t get much better than that.

Thank you for reading this and i look forward to christmas day.

Best Wishes

Anna xxx

P.S:  If your reading this today then could you please give mother nature a call and delayed the snow for me as i’m going out tonight and i need to be able to use public transport. Thank you xx

I was told in late September that one of my favorite make-up company are closing down.

Be Never Too Busy To be Beautiful (in short – it simply Be Never) was closing down at the end of the year.

This is upsetting news and i admit i do not approved! For those who have never heard of it – it a joint venture between Lush Cosmetic, it sells make-up, bath bomb and perfume. What set it apart for other company that it made all natural and ethical, you go into a shop and instantly you feel like you stepped into a Aladdin lamp – i can’t really described it.

So after Christmas it bye bye bnever. Lush Cosmetic has said it will absorbed some of the products but i personally will missed the helpful staff and the wonderful make-up.

Oh well..i guess i will just order everything i can online and stock up.

In a scene from 1956′s “High Society,” Grace Kelly wears a white halter swimsuit and pushes a model sailboat into a swimming pool, her head cocked to the side, eyes shining.

It’s a serene moment and one that captures the patrician beauty of the Oscar winning actress-turned-princess, who married Prince Rainier III of Monaco that year and left Hollywood to become Princess Grace of Monaco.

With her swept-back blond waves, splash of lipstick, model-perfect face and demure stature, Kelly was a muse to couture houses such as Dior and Givenchy. Kelly died in 1982 at age 52, yet 27 years later she continues to inspire designers with her elegant style.

“She has always been on my mind, whether I do ballgowns or wedding dresses. Beauty, but always with a modern twist,” said eveningwear designer Reem Acra. “I’m sure, if she was in my era, or her in mine, I could have dressed her. She would have been my muse.”

Kelly will be honored Thursday with the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award in Beverly Hills, along with French jeweler Cartier. They join past honorees including Manolo Blahnik, Tom Ford, Donatella Versace and Giorgio Armani.

The event comes a day after Tommy Hilfiger and his wife Dee chair the Princess Grace Foundation-USA’s Princess Grace Awards Gala in New York City, with awards presented to artists in dance, theater and film.

Hilfiger, who wrote the forward to 2007′s tribute book “Grace Kelly: A Life in Pictures” (Pavilion), noted how Kelly’s look in “High Society” broke her out from the pack, exemplified by a cinched-in white wedding dress with sheer, blouse sleeves.

It was her last film role before exiting Hollywood to raise her family as a princess, but she had star turns in ’50s Hitchcock movies “To Catch a Thief,” “Rear Window,” and “Dial M for Murder.” She won a best actress Oscar for “Country Girl” in 1954.

“She really epitomized American beauty,” said Hilfiger. “Her swimwear was amazing, but her dresses became iconic. She was not only royalty, but she was a mother, down-to-earth, athletic. She loved the outdoors. She had a lot of qualities women aspire to today.”

Both Acra and Hilfiger pointed to Kelly’s ability to look put-together without too much effort. That consistency, from a belted skirt suit in “Rear Window” to a simple, white strapless gown in “To Catch a Thief,” shows her style staying power, they said.

She sometimes showed a hint of attitude, too, added Acra, particularly in a three-quarter sleeve, off-white dress from “Rear Window.” She wore it with a fur cape and black bag.

“Most of what she wore consisted of timeless classics. That’s what we look at for inspiration throughout the years,” said Hilfiger. “Many looks keep coming back to the runway. Her coat dresses, the way she wore prints, the way she wore ballgowns. Even her casual sportswear, wearing gingham, her country club looks.”

Bred in Philadelphia, Kelly always carried herself with a regal air, becoming the namesake for the still sought-after Hermes Kelly bag.

But for Hilfiger, who grew up in a small town in upstate New York, her look was hardly the norm — and that’s partly what intrigues him. His spring 2007 collection channeled Kelly with shift dresses paired with scarves.

Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Zac Posen, Michael Kors, Vera Wang and Ralph Lauren are among the others to cite her as a fashion icon.

Acra, who boasts red-carpet credits on Angelina Jolie and Eva Longoria, among others, said she is working on a new Kelly-influenced collection, with dresses and gowns made out of tulle and organza in blush colors and ivory, accessorized by ribbons in green or taupe.

Janie Bryant, costume designer for Emmy-winning AMC television show “Mad Men,” gushed about Kelly’s tea-length wedding gown in “High Society,” and a later photo of her wearing a boucle suit, standing and watching her children at a swing set.

“It’s so simply beautiful and haunting, in a way,” said Bryant. “She does possess containment, but it’s also propriety. … It’s also about the image of perfection and happiness. People look at her, and see that, whether it’s true and not.”

With the show set in the early ’60s, Kelly was the primary influence for the character of Betty Draper, another lithe blonde with impeccably fitted garments.

Kelly was a blend of frailty and femininity, Bryant said, but with a mysterious quality.

“She was one of the most elegant women in history,” said Hilfiger. “A woman of class and grace, and on top of it, incredible style. She said, ‘I’m a living person, I exist, and my life is real.’”

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