Trench-mania

The Prince Trech in Polish Elle has had many incarnations...
Gant, Christian Dior, Michael Kors, Tod's, Tommy Hilfiger.

Trench today

Dries Van Notten, Burberry... even H&M

Humphrey Bogart and trench

Invention of the trench coat is claimed by both Burberry and Aquascutum. Thomas Burberry, the inventor of gabardine fabric, submitted a design for an army officer's raincoat to the United Kingdom War Office in 1901, Aquascutum's claim dating back to the 1850s. Then it was developed as an alternative to the heavy serge greatcoats worn by British and French soldiers in the First World War and during the Second World War, officers of the United Kingdom continued to use the trench coat on the battlefield in inclement weather. A typical trench coat by this period was a ten-buttoned, double-breasted long coat made with tan, khaki, beige or black fabric.


Undoubtedly it has remained fashionable in the decades following World War II. Its original role as part of an army officer's uniform lent the trench coat a businesslike respectability, whilst fictional heroes as diverse as the Dick Tracy, Mike Hammer, Jack Harkness and of course Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine and Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau kept the coat in the public eye….

Casablanca

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
(Humphrey Bogart)

PS. Glamorous 10 years - happy birthday!

Happy Birthday the British edition of Glamour!
Cannot it be any more glamourous ... and Happy International Women's Day

L'amour toujours

To love and be loved...
To be passionate...
To inspire and be inspired, by great people and little things...

My little guilty pleasures,
Always, often, or at least sometimes,
Film, fashion, travelling.