Today’s Fashionable Friend Friday is Lark Champion of Larkin Lane Designs. I am friends with Lark on facebook and recently found out about her incredible website featuring her fantastic clutches, scarves, jackets and pillows. Each design is more fashionable than the next. I love how she features a scarf with the matching clutch. The combo will turn and outfit from drab to fab instantly!! You have to check out her site https://www.larkinlanedesigns.com. Bon Weekend!!!
With the weather finally turning and beautiful sunny days are now ahead of us it is nice to bring some of the colors of the outdoors inside. It is easier than ever to create beautiful floral arrangments using flowers that you can get at your local grocer. Stores such as Whole Foods, Trader Joes and Stop and Shop have a great selection of cut flowers. All you have to do is add some natural elements from your own homes, such as green leaves, interesting sticks, lemons, limes and the possibilities are endless. Remember sometimes the most simple arrangements are the most beautiful!!! Happy Arranging!!!
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Last week I had the quintessential New York experience. Two friends and I went to the Carlyle Hotel for lunch. Oh if those walls could talk. The Carlyle was the second home to so many iconic people, as you can tell by all the wonderful photographs in the lobby. From Jackie and JFK to the Beetles, everyone’s stayed here. The intimate lunch setting was incredible. It is a definite must do the next time you are in the city.
With my son’s high school graduation just about a week away, my mind is on all things celebration. I wanted to mark this special day with a gift for him that he would cherish for years to come. I chose a vintage watch and had it engraved with his graduation date. It is something that he will wear during job interviews, on his wedding day and hopefully will have with him for all other milestones throughout this life. On my search for the perfect gift, I found so many other great things for the graduate in your life. Here are some of my favorites!!!
I was lucky enough to be introduced to the book In The Name of Gucci:A Memoir by Patricia Gucci. It is a wonderfully written story about the forbidden love between her mother, Bruna, and Aldo Gucci, the “powerhouse” behind the brand that it is today. It is also a sentimental account of the wonderful father-daughter relationship behind the dynamic brand. The story goes like this:
Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the lovechild whose birth could have spelled ruination for her father, Aldo Gucci. It was the early 1960s, the halcyon days for Gucci—the must-have brand of Hollywood and royalty—but also a time when having a child out of wedlock was illegal in Italy. Aldo couldn’t afford a public scandal, nor could he resist his feelings for Patricia’s mother, Bruna, the paramour he met when she worked in the first Gucci store in Rome. To avoid controversy, he sent Bruna to London after she became pregnant, and then discretely whisked her back to Rome with her newborn hidden from the Italian authorities, the media, and the Gucci family.
In the Name of Gucci charts the untold love story of Patricia’s parents, relying on the author’s own memories, a collection of love letters and interviews with her mother, as well as an archive of previously unseen photos. She interweaves her parents’ tempestuous narrative with that of her own relationship with her father—from an isolated little girl who lived in the shadows for the best part of a decade through her rise as Gucci’s spokesperson and Aldo’s youngest protégé, to the moment when Aldo’s three sons were shunned after betraying him in a notorious coup and Patricia—once considered a guilty secret—was made his sole universal heir. It is an epic tale of love and loss, treason and loyalty, sweeping across Italy, England and America during the most tumultuous period of Gucci’s sixty years as a family business.
In the Name of Gucci charts the untold love story of Patricia’s parents, relying on the author’s own memories, a collection of love letters and interviews with her mother, as well as an archive of previously unseen photos. She interweaves her parents’ tempestuous narrative with that of her own relationship with her father—from an isolated little girl who lived in the shadows for the best part of a decade through her rise as Gucci’s spokesperson and Aldo’s youngest protégé, to the moment when Aldo’s three sons were shunned after betraying him in a notorious coup and Patricia—once considered a guilty secret—was made his sole universal heir. It is an epic tale of love and loss, treason and loyalty, sweeping across Italy, England and America during the most tumultuous period of Gucci’s sixty years as a family business.
I interviewed Patricia last Friday on my radio show and really enjoyed talking to her and hearing what she had to share about her parent’s love affair, her family, the timeless Gucci fashions, and her doting father. To listen to the powerful interview, click HERE
To purchase In The Name of Gucci, click HERE.
This Week’s Real Estate Stalking is an incredible home in Connecticut that is a summer rental. What a gorgeous setting to spend those lazy summer days. The property and view are stunning. It so easy to forget how amazing the Long Island Sound can be. How great would it be to have it right in your back yard? For more information on this Chilton Summer Listing of Chilton and Chadwick, a team within Higgins Group contact christine@chiltonandchadwick.com.
