It’s Wednesday and the swapmeet is still open for business! Also, National Chocolate Milk Day and World Tourism Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
Diana Vreeland said “Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world”, to which I would answer that Arielle Shoshana Saturday is doing about the same for me today, and with considerably less expense and bother.
Reminder: 9/29 is Diana Vreeland’s birthday…
In more recent years, before starting to develop my own scents, I played around with lots of different perfumes, never quite finding my signature one. But what is interesting is that when I investigated fragrances that I have been drawn to over the years, they have all been Jerome creations. It was why I was adamant that I wanted to collaborate with him for my fragrance collection.
— Victoria Beckham on why she wanted perfumer Jérôme Epinette to work on Portofino ’97, San Ysidro Drive and Suite 302. Read more in Victoria Beckham on her new trio of fragrances at Harper's Bazaar.
Jean Paul Gaultier did up Classique and Le Male in red puffer vests last year; this year it's fur-trimmed silver: "This dazzling collector's edition of Classique is reimagined in an iridescent bottle containing the original Classique perfume under a faux fur coat." The women's is currently on markdown at Macy's ($110 for 100 ml), don't know if they'll stock the men's or not.
Victoria’s Secret has launched Bombshell Tour, featuring four limited edition flankers to 2010’s Bombshell fragrance for women: Bombshell Bogotá, Bombshell Lagos, Bombshell London and Bombshell Tokyo…
Victoria Beckham will launch three unisex fragrances, Portofino ’97, San Ysidro Drive and Suite 302. Each scent in the new trio was inspired by an important moment in her life, and developed by perfumer Jérôme Epinette…