Dangerous liaisons, difficult interviews… and WILL YOU RELAX?


October 22nd, 2008

The other day I wrote about my visit to the American Apparel factory.  (If I knew how to put the little linky-thing in here, there would be a handy click-on highlighted word that would take you to the blog post instantly, but hey… babysteps). After I wrote it, I was googling Dov Charney, the company’s [...]

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Shop with the Pros - Lucky Mag Interview


August 10th, 2008

The September issue of Lucky Mag will include a piece on myself and Sephora, New York.

 
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Q&A between Kathleen Baird-Murray and Claudia Savino


April 25th, 2008

Q&A between Kathleen Baird-Murray and Claudia Savino, her friend in New York who found a critter under her desk and needed to do something  that would take her mind off it.
1.Why plastic surgery?
Do you mean generally, or as the setting for this novel?   Well, it’s quite zeitgeisty no?  And at the time I had [...]

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The Sun-Herald Interview: How To Be Beautiful


February 19th, 2003

This beauty bible gives new treatment to the serious business of looking gorgeous. By Alison Boleyn
Once upon a time, a glamorous beauty editor was bemoaning the lack of good product in this world. “How is it,” she wailed, “that they can cure cancer but they can’t make a decent waterproof mascara?” “Sweetie,” her editor replied, [...]

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Beauty’s so beastly


November 21st, 2002

A new self-help book shows you how to fight ageing, but our correspondent would rather have new shoes and her myopic husband
I PROMISED to shoot anyone who gave me a copy of Nigella Lawson’s How to be a Domestic Goddess, and I’m not sure that the bearer of Kathleen Baird-Murray’s book How to be Beautiful [...]

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