Love... Tricia Guild and The Design Guild

The fabulous Tricia Guild...

The deliciously enticing storefront on King's Road...

Some people travel abroad to see the sights: the Empire State Building, Sagrada Familia, Parthenon or Hagia Sophia. Others, like me are lured overseas for equally impressive establishments like the Designer's Guild situated perfectly on London's uberfashionable King's Road. Tricia Guild, the mastermind behind this mecca of good taste, started the company in 1970 and now shares responsibilities with her business savvy brother Simon Jeffrey's. The Guild, with its cheerful robin's egg blue storefront is as pretty on the outside as the items produced inside- think hand painted wallpaper, lush fabrics designed in the name of the Queen and furniture that makes you ooh and ahh like you might when catching your first glimpse of those famous pyramids everyone talks about!

My favorite print of the moment...

So subtly beautiful I can't stand it...

A quite cheerful room...

I love these trees- and they come in all sorts of vibrant colors- think rhubarb!

It is not normal to get this excited about wallpaper, but I can't help it. This is gorgeous.

Wallpaper made fabric made blue made dazzling window treatments...

I could live in this room. Now.

Or in this room...

This isn't totally me- but I love the combos of prints and stripes and light, airy textures!

I will however live here, note the wide-plank floors...

January Jones chats with Interview...

Loathe... Betty Draper, Like January Jones

Betty Draper looking mean... January looking rather nice....


I have always found myself hating January Jones. She's tall, she's beautiful, she's impeccably dressed, and she pouts a lot. Then I saw her interviewed on the SAG red carpet where she cracked a smile and revealed what I assume is her identity, not that of Betty Draper, the sullen housewife whose attributes I had formerly attached to the actress herself. I guess it is a risk that many actors take when playing the part of a villain and Jones seems to have played the nightmarish and cold housewife, Betty Draper so well that I found myself absolutely loathing the girl behind the villain January Jones. But alas, on this recent red carpet appearance she was not at all what I expected! She didn't scold the interviewer for slouching, or speaking loudly, she didn't light up a cigarette complaining and sighing heavily- Instead she smiled, laughed and spoke with humor. Something I've never witnessed from the fairly under-the-radar actress who doesn't do many interviews and is mostly blogged about for her dating habits and clothing choices. So I admit my folly in judging Ms. Jones prematurely and falsely projecting the sourness of Mrs. Draper onto the seemingly sweet actress.

The actress watching a tennis tournament with friend (and also fabulous) Rose Byrne...

Jones is the new face of Versace...



In a sassy red Versace at the Golden Globes...
(I'll toot my own horn- I blogged about this dress months ago!)



Love this Carolina Herrera look at the SAGs...



January at the 2010 Golden Globes wearing Versace...

More Versace for the Emmy's....

Love... Lady Sybil from Downton Abbey

The undeniable Lady Sibil Crawley...

If you weren't glued to your television this past month watching Downton Abbey, the latest and greatest contribution to Masterpiece Theater, then you have most certainly missed out. This instantly addictive program tells the story of the tremondously loveable Crawley family and their equally, if not more endearing staff. Set in 1912, it's exactly what I wished Gosford Park had been, but wasn't- and my very favorite part of the show? Lady Sybil Crawley, played perfectly by the young and destined to be famous, Jessica Brown-Findlay is the youngest daughter in the family who is known for soft demeanor, growing feminist ideals and solidarity with the Crawley employees, one of which may soon become a love interest!


The Crawley sisters, Lady Edith, Lady Mary and Lady Sibil...




Lady Sibil listening attentively to a speaker supporting the women's suffrage movement...



Making an oh so modern and fabulous statement in her envelop-pushing new "dress"!


Attending another suffragettes protest against her father's wishes... and who is that handsome gent next to her? Her chauffer and aspiring politician friend!



While her sister's fight about boys, she helps a maid find work as a Secretary...


Jessica Brown-Findlay looking stylish as herself at an event...