Black Magic. December 2014.
Dear Rowley, You must have thought I’d been white slaved to Latin America. Well sorry to disappoint. How the devil have you been? The reason I went all Imitation Game on friends and family is twofold....
View ArticleShow Business. May 2015.
Dear Rowley, What a world Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana has been born into. Should you wish to see hubris and cynicism dressed in its most gaudy, absurd raiment one should look no further than New...
View ArticleSic Transit Gloria Mundi. February 2016.
Dear Rowley, I always wondered when the fashion industry would, like a snake swallowing its own tail, eat itself. The prediction came true with the announcement that Burberry – closely followed by Tom...
View ArticleActing-Up. March 2016.
Dear Rowley, Hollywood really can’t win when held up to scrutiny by the fashion police. The 88th Academy Awards this weekend was one of the best-dressed in years and yet cause for criticism was found....
View ArticleFashion. July 2016.
Dear Rowley, Scorchio today in Britain today, no? It was still over thirty degrees at 6.30pm so I nipped round to the camp Greco-Roman pool next door and cooled-off like a hippo in the Chobe river. Yet...
View ArticleHollywood Black Tie. March 2017.
Dear Rowley, Department of no surprises that Paul ‘Diana’s Rock’ Burrell has divorced his wife and is marrying a husband. ‘Royal Butler is Gay’ shocker is up there as a headline with ‘Madonna Adopts...
View ArticleDeep in Vogue. November 2017.
Dear Rowley, The much-anticipated December issue of Vogue under the captaincy of Edward Enninful hit the newsstands today. If nothing else, the amount of media – both print and social – generated by...
View ArticleAnd the Oscar Goes To. March 2018.
Dear Rowley, Wouldn’t you know it, the all-black dress code for actresses at the BAFTAs was out of the window at the 90th anniversary Academy Awards yesterday. There was still a deal of tub-thumping...
View ArticleBobby Hillson. April 2018.
Dear Rowley, My career has been thanks in part to a cabal of strong women who mentored me throughout my life. In Junior School it was the immaculate Miss Dalton; she of the glossy cottage loaf hair,...
View ArticleMiss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. May 2018.
Dear Rowley, If there was a BAFTA or an EMMY for costume design on television the winner hands down would be Marion Boyce who has dressed Essie Davis as Phryne Fisher for three seasons of Miss Fisher’s...
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