Entries Tagged as 'Amber Recommends'

The 5 Best Swimming Pools in The World

20.09.13

I write from the Boscolo in Milan, a stunning boutique hotel that has amongst other things, one of the best hotel pools I’ve ever swam in. Goggles are embarrassingly, always the first thing I pack, part of my secret search for the best swimming pools in the world, but here are my Top 5 so far….Don’t forget your bikini!

1. The W Hotel Seoul. Over Looking South Korea’s Capital this Pool is perched on the top floor with its own outdoor ‘urban beach’ surrounding it.

2. The Bvlgari Hotel Bali. This tranquil infinity pool is the epitome of serenity.

3. The Boscolo Hotel Milan. Warm salt water sci-fi pool kind of trippy kind of relaxing.

 4. The Delano Hotel Miami- Float around on a lilo in this pool in the day and wicked pool parties by night.

5. Sky High Decadence at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore. Perfect for Megalomaniacs.

#LFW Day 2 & 3

16.09.13

 

With my CITY GIRLS @grbellamacina & @PGDIP at THE EDITION Hotel last night for the launch of Voyage D’Etudes  

  

A ruffled mesh delight @ SISTER by SIBLING

  

Need this biker skater skirt vamp look from @ MARYKATRANTZOU

OMG. CHRISTOPHER KANE MERMAIDS

 

MAJOR ASHISH shopping bags.

 

@MYFLASHTRASH WRIST CANDY

10 Great Looks from #NYFW

12.09.13

As Summer dozed off to sleep for another year, New York Fashion Week started in a whirl of pastel crop tops and  90’s soft grunge. Sad I couldn’t make it over to the big apple to play this year, but instagram provided the next best thing! So here’s a round up of my top 10 looks for S’S’14. Roll on LFW for some IRL fashion action! See you in the courtyard xoxo

1) Gypsy Romance @ Delpozo

 

2) Rad Safari Prints @ Suno

3) Great Jackets & Classic White Shirts @ BLK DNM

4) Girly Pastel drop dresses @ Victoria by Victoria Beckham

5) Feminine Grunge from Juicy Couture founders new label Pam + Gela

6) Aztec Sophistication @ Custo Barcelona

7) Sci-Fi, Grunge, School Ground, @ Alexander Wang

8) 90’s meets Audrey Hepburn @ Alice + Oliva

9) 60’s School Girl @ Ralph Lauren

10) Cali Kaleidoscope @ Clover Canyon

 

On Selfies & Self-Portraits

04.09.13

To Ryder Street last night for the ‘Viva London: Self Portraits’ exhibition hosted by Harper’s Bazaar.  An intimate gallery of photographs, paintings and drawings, individually pictured the talented young women the agency represents in the most honest way.

 [Olympia Campbell, Edie Campbell, Amber Atherton]

Self-portraiture as a style came to popularity in the Early Renaissance, with increased wealth and interest in the individual as a subject. The form seems more relevant than ever in our ‘Selfie’ culture, as we increasingly spend more time isolated on digital platforms we become our own subject for self-expression.  Frida Kahlo ( below) is most famous for her self-portraits, indeed of her 143 paintings, 55 are self-portraits which often incorporate symbolic portrayals of physical and psychological wounds. She insisted….

 “I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”

Last night I wore this lovely Peter Jensen dress, his s’s13 collection was shown in a gallery and in a extract from Interview magazine he weighs in on the relationship between fashion and art….  ‘I always think it’s pretentious when designers talk about what they do as art. I think when I was studying in the late ’90s, the two got much closer: all the designers wanted to be artists and the artists wanted to be fashion designers; the designers wanted to be conceptual and highbrow and the artists more pop culture.‘ 

SHOP THE LOOK

 

 

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