Friday, 31 January 2014
Thursday, 30 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Don Draper
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Oprah
"I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes."
Oprah Winfrey, 59 today (correction: 60 today)
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Quentin Crisp
Monday, 27 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Virginia Woolf
Friday, 24 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Edith Wharton
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Jeanne Moreau
"Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck. That's the way it goes."
Jeanne Moreau, 86 today
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Tamara Mellon
"The definition of a feminist is someone who wants equal. That's all it is, it's equal. There's nothing wrong with asking for equal."
Tamara Mellon
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Christian Dior
"It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love, especially if one succeeds."
Christian Dior, born today 1905
Monday, 20 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Steve Martin
Friday, 17 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Gloria Steinem
Thursday, 16 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Kate Moss
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One of my favourite Moss UK Vogue covers, from 2005 |
"Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favourite things to do."
Kate Moss, 40 today
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Anne of Green Gables
"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."
Anne of Green Gables (by LM Montgomery)
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Cecil Beaton
"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman at the back who says she doesn't like blue."
Cecil Beaton, born today 1904
Monday, 13 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Emma Thompson
Friday, 10 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... PJ Harvey
Thursday, 9 January 2014
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... David Bowie
"I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me."
David Bowie, 66 today
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Katharine Whitehorn
"Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it."
Katharine Whitehorn, journalist, given a CBE in the New Year's Honours List
Monday, 6 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Nigella Lawson
"It sounds like something on a very trite t-shirt, but life is what happens."
Nigella Lawson, 53 today
Friday, 3 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Hillary Clinton
Thursday, 2 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Isaac Asimov
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Isaac Asimov, born today 1920
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
Today I'm channelling... Jack Kerouac
"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry." That'll do for a new year's resolution.
Jack Kerouac
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