giving up the fantasy;loving the reality


December 3rd, 2010

A while back, in a rash moment of introspection and self-absorption, probably somewhere between reading Mariela Frostrup’s problem page and a little over-sharing at my hairdressers,  I decided I needed to give up some of the fantasies that have motored me through life so far.  If I hadn’t already achieved them and wasn’t about to [...]

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hairdryers at dawn…


October 17th, 2008

Sally Hershberger is the kind of woman who isn’t easily forgotten.  When I met her a few years ago at beauty central (Claridges, again!) I was beauty director at Tatler, and she was working with John Frieda with a salon in LA.  She told me I looked like Heidi Klum, a comment which I have [...]

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