Colourful clothes for gloomy days as the news is in that the temperature will drop drastically in the UK early next week, while back in my homeland Australia it is over 43 degrees for the third day in a row.

I will console myself with Frieda Kahlo’s dresses, and remind myself that I hope to make it to Mexico City this year to see Alice.

From the book Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress: Frida’s Wardrobe and via Atlantis Home.

I hope we can make the Gainsbourg exhibition in Paris this winter! Thanks to Pam for wording us up!

21 October 2008 - 1 March 2009, Cité de la musique.

And just because she’s so sublime…

Inspired by Madame Says: Lesbian Chic. Images from Shorpy.

Hats off to Mimi Weddell, and hats off to my step father Kev who is 90 today.

Artist and curator Audrey Kawasaki recreated her studio in the window of Thinkspace Gallery in LA as part of The Drawing Room show.

At last it’s official and nobody has to pretend any more….

The Stirling Prize for architecture is announced at a dinner in Liverpool on Saturday night, without me!!

It can be viewed on Channel 4 on Sunday evening.

At the Formosa Dining Rooms, late 2007.

Arundel Square, Islington.

Courtesy my dear friend, the artist Karen Logan.