Does size matter? Mind the thigh gap

Size matters! Or so we are told…but do we all have to be a size 6 to walk into a room and wow.

Personally I think beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder. We put on a few pounds, we lose a few pounds but we are essentially the same fabulous woman we were before.

Style is in the eye of the woman who emanates it, where she is S, M, or L. We are all more than the some of our measurements, and have the ability to ensure that we wear an an item of clothing and it does not wear us.

It is all about the right fit, cut or design, not about us fitting into a narrowly defined box. Beauty comes in various shapes, sizes and forms, and we as women need to claim and own it for ourselves and nobody else.

Here is the first plus sized casual smarts edit

 

Paloma

Creative Genius

So here we are in the middle of the art season, with the opening of the Foundation Louis Vuitton, Frieze London and FIAC all having taken place in early autumn. Creatives are now looking forward to Art Basel Miami which starts tomorrow.

Wish you were there? Me too!

There is a silver lining…. closer to home in London there are a number of fantastic V&A exhibitions to keep us happy.  I have the Horst and the Alexander McQueen ’Savage Beauty’ exhibitions on my to do list!

On another note, I am particularly excited about the re-opening of the Picasso Gallery in Paris. My first visit to the museum was in 2008 just before it closed for renovation and I remember the space being quite intimate and set within the elegant Hotel Sale.

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