secretstylist christmas gift guide...part one...tallulah

Just humour me on the names. I've created three Christmas gift guides which you can forward on to boys, brothers, fathers, lovers, friends and mothers...

First up is Tallulah, she loves to travel. She would rather spend her money on a flight to a far flung country than a new pair of shoes. She thinks Prada is a flesh eating fish. Make her throw away those revolting half zip trousers and inject some glamour into her rucksack with....

a cosy scarf for long plane and train journeys (Charlotte Taylor at YBD or Anthropologie)

a cross-body suede bag (Meli Melo at Young British Designers)

a new peacock bikini from We are Handsome (Barneys NY or Net-A-Porter)

rocking boots she can wear anywhere (Zadig & Voltaire)

a stylish ipad cover to wow the hostel dwellers (J.Crew)

a blush dress she can wear to parties (Elizabeth & James at The Outnet)

a beautiful book to inspire her (Assouline)

a leopard print dress for the beach bar (Zimmerman at Net-A-Porter)

Moroccan style earrings to wear endlessly (KJ's Laundry)

 

friday means...metallic knitwear

Loving a bit of sparkly metallic knitwear...seeing it on a lot of stylish girls at the moment. From top left Zara (of course), Zara again, Markus Lupfer at Lane Crawford, NW3 Hobbs, Madewell (with sparkly elbow patch too...cute), and my favourite...Vince at Barneys.

rocking animal print

Animal print belongs to my boss during my days at Grebstad Hicks. Lynn wore it well, head to toe, 365 days a year! I love injecting a bit of animal print into my wardrobe, and this season there are some great options around. Try a semi-subtle scarf, a blatant jean or a super subtle boot...



This gorgeous scarf by Lily and Lionel (who I love), in the sale at The Outnet

I saw a girl wearing these at the weekend and they looked incredible! By Current Elliott, the grey ones, from Matches

Isabel Marant boots at Barneys. Enough said.

the lugging laptop look...

...is so not a good look. I am without wifi at the new flat, Facebook is refusing to work on my iPhone and my laptop keeps crashing. I think someone is trying to tell me something. So I have been lugging our archaic laptop around to various wifi hot spots (Soho House is gorgeous (apparently Manrepeller blogs there too, ooooooo) Cafe Minerva is cute, Ace hotel lobby is shabby chic glam - all full of hot people, stirring lattes, staring at laptops). In an ideal world a nice Celine or Alexander Wang would be my tote of choice for such laptop lugging activity, however Topshop will do nicely...

diy or buy?

I am completely in love with these boots from Barneys Co-op which I spied here, she might make them, you might make them (would you?), but I think I'd just buy them...