Food prices are higher than they’ve ever been – and it seems even the humble sandwich isn’t immune from price hikes after Pret a Manger found itself in the firing line this week for charging £7.15 for a baguette.
And no, it isn’t filled with wagyu steak or gold leaf – just cheese and pickle. The Posh Cheddar and Pickle Baguette at Pret doesn’t just have mature cheddar and chunky pickle, but some roasted tomatoes, sliced red onion, free-range mayo
Fashion editor Suzy Menkes recently called the Princess of Wales’ use of the royal jewellery collection a ‘disappointment’, bemoaning that she wears its pieces only ‘when she absolutely has to’.
But Kate raiding the royal vault solely for occasions such as state banquets is a considered move.
Her love of demi-fine and even costume jewellery — something previous royals would never wear — is all down to the ‘Kate effect’.
Whatever the Princess is snapped wearing flies off the shelves,
The remark about Princess Kate’s approach to jewellery was made on the podcast Creative Conversations, which is hosted by Suzy Menkes, 79, the former Vogue editor.
The well-known critic, who in 2014 received an OBE from the late Queen for her work in fashion journalism, invited Carol Woolton, the current jewellery editor of British Vogue, on the show so they could talk about the Princess of Wales’s most recent looks.
The former editor of Vogue International claimed that Kate, 41,
Princess Kate’s fans have quickly come to the royal’s defence after a former Vogue editor said the Princess of Wales was a “disappointment” in her approach to jewellery.
Suzy Menkes, 79, made the scathing comments on the latest episode of her podcast, Creative Conversations, where she conducts interviews with those in the fashion industry.
But fans praised Princess Kate’s ability to wear a mix of high-end and affordable pieces saying some items are a “sell out” the moment she puts
A day after my forty-third birthday, I met a friend at a municipal tennis court in Berkeley. The Bay Area had just suffered through a few weeks of wind and rain, which meant that tennis addicts like me had to squeeze whatever play we could into small pockets of sunshine. If surfers turn themselves into amateur oceanographers, tracking how a storm in Japan might affect a north-facing break in San Diego, tennis hacks are self-fashioned hydrologists, predicting exactly what time
