January 25, 20196 yr Chanel and Laura Bailey Celebrate "Mary Queen of Scots", London - January 18 2019
January 25, 20196 yr Rosemary Ferguson X MATCHESFASHION.COM party, Carlos Place - January 25 2019 Laura Bailey and Fat Tony.
February 10, 20196 yr Charles Finch & Chanel pre-BAFTA's dinner at Loulou's on February 09, 2019 in London, England.
February 19, 20196 yr Erdem London Fashion Week presentation on Monday (February 18) in London, England.
February 19, 20196 yr Laura Bailey walks the runway at the Oxfam Fashion Fighting Poverty Catwalk Show at Ambika P3 on February 18, 2019 in London, England.
March 5, 20196 yr Laura Bailey attends the Chanel show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2019/2020 on March 05, 2019 in Paris, France.
April 30, 20196 yr vogue.co.uk Laura Bailey's Weekly Edit Each week, model, photographer and Vogue contributing editor Laura Bailey shares her most-loved things of the moment - from the album she's listening to and the book she's reading, to the art she's devouring in London. Read Candice Carty-Williams’s debut novel, Queenie, riffs on real and digital romance, family trauma, work and friendship, and smashes the cultural and sexual stereotypes in her way along the way. A reflection on he-said, she-said break-up communications is devastatingly identifiable, as are the ritual power-play humiliations of the office flirt or confessional doctors’ surgery. Queenie is every woman who’s been punished or diminished for her desire, her shape or her race, and her revenge/survival is poignant in its honest comic sass. South London soul and grace and grit with a millennial political punch. It would be lazy to label Queenie the black Bridget Jones; her "Darcy" is a stalwart girlfriend in a knowing wink to modern love and sisterhood. An unfinished conversation - this left me wanting more. See Detour. I was supposed to return to hospital to get my burnt hand checked after a Saturday night disaster (cooking is dangerous), but decided I was healing just fine and stole an hour at the Victoria Miro Gallery N1 instead. The right decision. (Bandages un-swaddled, barely a scar.) Chantal Joffe, one of my favourite artists, currently has a split-site show at Victoria Miro - self portraits in Mayfair, the emotive result of a 2018 resolution to paint one a day for a year (the works now published in entirety with an accompanying essay by Olivia Laing, "The Front of My Face") and large-scale paintings of teenage friends and family, vulnerable, languid, knowing... at the Wharf Road space. I was entirely alone in the gallery, drifting between faces and memories, oil and water, embracing the in-between intersection of innocence and experience, style and substance. The whole world growing up in a room in the sky beside the canal, flashlit by the sun.
April 30, 20196 yr Travel I’m secretive - possessive of my South of France fantasy idyll - but this weekend I was invited to the Hyères Festival for the first time and all worlds collided. A celebration of creativity in photography and design showcased via the magic kingdom of Villa Noailles, an early modernist house built in the 1920s by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens for patrons Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles. They invited Man Ray to shoot his 1929 film "Les Mystères du Château de Dé" on site, while also hosting Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau, thus establishing Hyères as a place of art pilgrimage, both a sanctuary and a springboard. (Karl Lagerfeld had photographed Villa Noailles in stormy-charcoal dissolute ruins in 1995 long before he creatively directed the Festival in 2015, explaining the deep connection between Chanel and the raw bones of the land and the Hyères bohemian aesthetic.) There I witnessed both the beautiful shock of the new and the profound influence of guiding lights (Craig McDean and Natasha Levi-Ramsay presided over the juries this year), in a celebration of young creative talent with the visionary support of the House of Chanel. A strange thing happened. My iPhone was stolen whilst walking my dog the minute I got home. I’ve pieced my virtual life together via Vodafone and Apple and the nightmarish tech maze but I lost most of my recent amateur films and recordings. It doesn’t matter - it’s all in my head - and maybe a lesson in presence over evidence. Hyères is a celebration of craft and freedom, as epitomised by Priscilla Royer, creative director at Maison Michel (hats and accessories extraordinaire), who walked and talked me through her mood boards, and collection/instillation in an oasis alcove on the roof of the Villa, musing on both the refined heritage muscle of the M.M. millinery Atelier and her own emotional process of creating. (Private, hushed, bad-tempered, waiting.) I’m not precious with my treasured Maison Michel pieces - I’d scrunched my favourite velvet cap into my hand luggage as I always do - and this is the mood of Hyères; underground luxe and rough edges. Talent squared, secrets shared. (And out-of-season St Tropez forever my favourite state of mind.) Listen I ran a little faster, loved a little harder, dreamt a little deeper, thanks to LIZZO this weekend. "Cuz I Love You" - "Juice" to dance to, "Lingerie" to slow everything down... Book Photo London, now in its fifth year at Somerset House, will be bigger and better than ever next month, showcasing both London’s dynamic photographic hub and international talent via 100-plus of the world’s leading galleries. My highlights: this year’s Master of Photography, Stephen Shore, will show at the Embankment Gallery all weekend, alongside the extraordinary Vivian Maier in the Studio Rooms. Book to listen to one of my heroes, Dana Lixenberg, in conversation at the National Portrait Gallery on May 17. Or just drift around, randomly, without a plan, as I usually do - although this year I will endeavour to track down the urban landscapes of Monica de Miranda and Tom Blachford, as well as Adam Jeppesen’s experimental mixed media dreamscapes via Black Box Projects. Dates for diary (May 16 - 19), ideally followed by supper at SPRING in spring. Somerset House hotlines/heartlines.
May 4, 20196 yr Laura Bailey attends the Chanel Cruise 2020 Collection : Photocall In Le Grand Palais on May 03, 2019 in Paris, France.
June 19, 20195 yr UK Premiere of "Yesterday" at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on June 18, 2019 in London, England.
June 26, 20195 yr The Summer Party 2019, Presented By Serpentine Galleries And Chanel, at The Serpentine Gallery on June 25, 2019 in London, England.
September 15, 20195 yr Fashion For Relief London 2019 at The British Museum on September 14, 2019 in London, England.
September 15, 20195 yr Nike x Gurls Talk premiere of Spit Fire, Dream Higher at Curzon Soho on July 08, 2019 in London, England.
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