SWOON FOR SYDNEY’S SHOES
Not planned your summer hols yet? After a heinous experience at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport recently we’re leaning into a feeling that road trips might be all the rage. For travel inspiration may we direct you to woman of the hour, Sydney Sweeney, in Jimmy Choo’s cool-as-a-cucumber new Palm Springs campaign. Sandra Choi, creative director of Jimmy Choo, said of the star: ‘Talented, confident and playful, with an inspiring work ethic. Her effortlessly cool sense of glamour is underpinned with an empowered sense of self.’ Sounds very us. Styling details to note: who needs trousers when your accessory game is this hot? Checking in to The White Lotus immediately, etc.
WHY PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID LACHAPELLE LOVES LONDON
As the esteemed American photographer celebrates his new Taschen book and a Mercedes-Maybach campaign, he tells Joe Bromley why London taught him a lesson
I moved here in 1984 and it was crazy. I had been working for Interview Magazine in New York and I came to shoot the scene happening in London. There was this cultural explosion happening with Leigh Bowery, Trojan and Michael Clark and Culture Club. We were in Taboo, and I fell in with people like Princess Julia, Jeffrey Hinton, John Maybury, the director, and Stevie and David from BodyMap. I was sleeping on their couches, I had no idea they were at the epicentre of creative London. I thought I’d seen it all in New York, but London was next level wildness. I learnt an important lesson in those years: a sense of originality. If you copied someone else's work you were looked down upon. It was not cool. Everyone had their own creative voice — today, so much is made from mood boards off Instagram and Pinterest. It’s bizarre that’s accepted.
IN THE DIARY: THE ART OF ARMANI EXHIBITION
Take a tour around the exquisite aesthetic partnership between Aldo Fallai and Giorgio Armani as a new exhibition details the 30-year creative relationship that helped set the Italian maestro’s powerful house tone. Curated by Armani himself, who says: ‘Working with Aldo allowed me from the very beginning to transform the vision I had in my mind into real images: to communicate that my clothes were not just made in a certain way with certain colours and materials, but that they represented a way of life. Because style, for me, is a total form of expression.’
12 May to 2 June, Giorgio Armani, 37-42 Sloane Street, SW1
THE BLOCK HEELS TO KNOW
Rupert Sanderson’s super chic new Fitzrovia store is just the spot to snap up a sexy pair of new kicks. Forget the boat shoe trend (eugh), we’re all about a block heel, thank you very much.
RUPERT SANDERSON Cavalla Cromato heels, £665, 61 Great Portland Street, W1, and rupersanderson.com
ADD TO BASKET BY JESSICA SKEETE-CROSS
CUBITTS X YMC Tomba sunglasses, £150, youmustcreate.com
PROENZA SCHOULER WHITE LABEL top, £264, zalando.co.uk
PETIT MOMENTS Riele earrings, £34, revolve.com
DENIM TEARS shorts, £235, denim tears.com
ONITSUKA TIGER Mexico 66 trainers, £130, onitsukatiger.com
