Leonora Draws

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Couch Potato

I am not sure slumber could get any better than these utterly heavenly pajamas from Lanvin that knocked the socks off everything else that hit net-a-porter last week.

I want, I want, I want. Please.

Lanvin silk-satin pajama set

£800

The new online night wear label Dote has some gorgeous pieces too.

Just what's in order for the freezing British winter.

Dote ivory Cotton Tuxedo Pajamas
£100

Dote cashmere socks
£38

Last summer my mother swanned down to breakfast one morning wearing the most beautiful silk dressing gown. It is from the label Ming B and the whole collection is amazing. There are cotton, silk and for the more dashing luxe-slumberer, velvet. Yes please.

And the label that has been having a lot of press recently is Olivia von Halle's collection of silk pajamas. They really are rather gorgeous, and I love the piping. The behind-the-scene-shoot is quite fun too.

Olivia von Halle Namalee & Mary pajamas

£300 each

Olivia von Halle shoot at Stanway

net-a-porter.com

dotelondon.com

mingb.co.uk

oliviavonhalle.com

Monday, 16 January 2012

Fanta Sea

Monday, 9 January 2012

Sleeping Beauties

Did you know that sea otters link arms so that they don't drift away from one another when they sleep?

Sunday, 8 January 2012

Hello 2012

I forgot to say... Happy New Year!

Friday, 6 January 2012

A World Without Eve

The photographer Eve Arnold has died aged 99. The war photographer Robert Capa said that her work: "falls metaphorically between Marlene Dietrich's legs and the bitter lives of migratory potato pickers."

Eve had known Marilyn Monroe for ten years by the time she photographed her on the set of The Misfits.

Arnold photographed Marlene Dietrich here at the Colombia Road recording studios in 1952.
Arnold notes: "It was a wet and cold November night and work could only begin at midnight, at the advice of Marlene's astrologer.

Arnold took this shot of a bargirl in a brothel in the red light district of Havana, Cuba in 1954.

A story shot for Queen focussed on the lives of four girls sharing an apartment.

Eve Arnold (1912-2012)

Thursday, 5 January 2012

Il Maestro

I started painting again today.

Lucien Freud Working at Night by David Dawson (2005)

Gatsby Fever

Has anyone else noticed the plethora of drop waist dresses creeping onto the scene recently?

As a girl with no waist I'm loving this look and can't help but think it may be due to the remake of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. I know the book is loved by many but I found the characters too selfish & tiresome. But with Baz Luhrmann directing it'll be a visual feast.

And the clothes, the clothes will be incredible.