This weekend I am mostly dressing casual...

...like Miss Lilyan Tashman, in her dress designed by Erté to look like a perfume bottle!

And why not?

It's been so lonely without u here

"As the last woman standing of the 80s superstar triumvirate born in the US Midwest in the summer of 1958 (the other, of course, being Michael Jackson), perhaps Madonna really was Prince’s only true peer." - Alex Needham, The Guardian.

"Most of all, thank you, Prince Rogers Nelson, for all that you have given us." - Our Patron Saint Madonna.

Amen.

I pull up my big girl g-string, follow my path, and move on

"Do you think I would have lasted 48 years if I really gave a flying fuck what people think? I pull up my big girl g-string, follow my path, and move on."

"I’ve always taken risks and never worried what the world might really think of me."

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him."

"I wouldn’t give myself any advice, because advice is kinda bullshit. Take a deep breath and don’t take any of it too seriously."

"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime, that still doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones."

"If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen."

"Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great."

Wise words from the Goddess of Kitsch, one of our most glittering Patron Saints - Cher, whose seventieth birthday it is today!

We are not worthy...

Cherilyn Sarkisian (born 20th May 1946)

"It's Lacroix, sweetie." "I love it!"

You want colour? He uses lots. Patterns? Several in one garment. Accessories? More, more, more..!

M Lacroix, the idol of the catwalks (and of Edina Monsoon) is 65 years old.



Many happy returns, Christian Marie Marc Lacroix (born 16th May 1951)

On the Jukebox this Eurovision week

If these don't illustrate why a vote for Britain to leave Europe may be a good idea, nothing will...

Xylo-madness

It comes in rainbow colours!

Just because...

Here's Vesta!



Born Audrey Grimaldi of circus family fame.

A talent to be reckoned with.

This weekend, I am mostly dressing casual...

...like Miss Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah!

One should always have feathers to hand in hot weather, I feel.

Fuck it, jump for joy!

She's seventy years old, you know...

"I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray."

"You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself."

"I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability."

"If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly."

"Getting older isn’t a sin. If you’re alive, you’ll get old. There is no point denying it. Fuck it, if you’ve done how much I’ve done, you are just jumping for joy when you hit my age!"

Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE FRGS (born 1st May 1946)