Thank you everyone for entering.  Selfishly, and because it’s all about me at the end of the day, I really really enjoyed checking out the website and reading comments from real people instead of hitting the delete button on the spam I generally receive.  Thank you!  
Thank you also for taking so much time to [...]

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Went to a film premiere last night, for the new Peter Morgan film about Brian Clough called The Damned United. I really enjoyed it - and I hate football.  I went as Nick Hamm, a film director, because Jennifer Hamm is my best friend and Nick couldn’t attend.  Now obviously if I was really going [...]

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It was my birthday last week, but while wild horses wouldn’t normally get me to work on my birthday (I told you, flexi-time), something else could:  a call from Jo Fox-Tutchener at BeautySeen, inviting me to take tea with Eve Lom. 

I first met the facialist Eve Lom about seven years ago.  I interviewed her for [...]

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Wednesday, and I’m having lunch at Tom Aikens, the Michelin starred restaurant in Chelsea.  The Taittinger is pouring and there’s an enormous box of Creme de la Mer sitting in everybody’s place.  It’s all in honour of Oceana, a very worthy cause as it turns out, more on it later.  All the key beauty editors [...]

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A LONG TIME AGO IN THE LAND OF FASHION, there lived on the fringes a short model whose diminutive stature was somehow not quite special enough to make her the next Kate Moss.  She specialised in Marks and Spencers bra packets and did no credible work whatsoever except for a video for Bella Freud which [...]

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It’s been a frustrating couple of weeks in the land of newspapers.  Stories I’ve written or contributed to have been changed after I saw them last.  Sometimes people have been upset as a result.  And sometimes effort has gone un-credited.  
As with this piece in the Daily Mail, about 50 best beauty products.  The author [...]

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