Christmas shouldn't be boring, and adding a touch of sparkle is an antidote that ensures it never will be. That's why, this year, we're ditching the minimalist 'nearly naked' Christmas trees of 2024 and embracing the gaudy tinsel-covered evergreens of decades past. For inspiration, we look to Hollywood royalty: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.
The couple, who famously met on the set of To Have and Have Not (1944) embodied the glamour and opulence of early Tinseltown, and ironically, so did their Christmas tree idea. A 1951 photoshoot with the iconic photographer Slim Aarons captured Bogart and Bacall on Christmas Eve in their Beverly Hills home, posed in front of a tinsel-covered tree. The tree is dripping with silver icicle tinsel (like this shimmery version from Amazon) and coated in traditional glass ball ornaments.
