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The Original Original Recipe For Pasta Bolognese
Inundated with crap it is hard not to get off Instagram at the end of the evening and feel like you just consumed a lot of garbage to get to one pearl of wisdom or something that might in fact add value to your life
The Argument For A Silk Scarf
I alighted from the chairlift (are you allowed to alight from a chairlift or only a train?) and the wind was absolutely blistering. I was testing some skis I decided to purchase after I got a tax refund that I had no idea was due back to me. Very happy indeed.
AI IS A GAME CHANGER - FOR GOOD OR FOR BAD
Whether we like it or not, AI is here to stay and it is a game changer. It takes roughly 60 seconds to create these images. I have, since I...
The 2023 Portrait Competition Winners Are ...
The winner is….
The winner of this year’s first portrait competition is Paul Horseshoer (no, that’s not his real last name).
The Cliffs Of Vaucluse - Our Latest Limited Edition Print
live not far from The Studio in Vaucluse. I have lived in the area for five years now. I have always loved the walks around here, The Hermitage nature walk, the walks along the cliffs by the lighthouse. Especially in the afternoon light, when it’s golden, it is a beautiful time.
Our Bespoke Service Is Unique - Don't Miss That Opportunity
Have you ever gotten to a retail store and asked for a bow tie and then the selection is small, mostly pre-tied and nothing is what you want? That was my dilemma too. Which is why I hold onto so many silks here at the Studio. So that you can not only choose the silk you want, but you can marry it with a shape that suits your face.
Richard, on the right, bought a navy tuxedo and had previously owned one of our black bow ties in a twill silk. He wanted the same now in navy. He couldn't find it in the store where he purchased his tuxedo, so he reached out by Whatsapp. We made him 5 different navy silks from which he chose this one. He was very happy and said that the details were noticed.
Can't find your perfect silk or shape? Reach us on +61413140994
Richard, on the right, bought a navy tuxedo and had previously owned one of our black bow ties in a twill silk. He wanted the same now in navy. He couldn't find it in the store where he purchased his tuxedo, so he reached out by Whatsapp. We made him 5 different navy silks from which he chose this one. He was very happy and said that the details were noticed.
Can't find your perfect silk or shape? Reach us on +61413140994
The Tools God Blessed You With - Thank You Jonathan
I did say originally that you could use AI in your submissions but of course what I really wanted is exactly what Jonathan Newhouse submitted for us this week and it caught me by surprise. I don't really want to harp on about it too much because it shouldn't overshadow all the other submissions but let me just say this - the man sat down and really made a piece of art. So thank you Jonathan and please, to all our other prospective participants, don't shy away from taking a pencil to paper. My daughter did a portrait of me last year in 45 minutes that was so good I had it framed. You never know what is in your hands and head until you commit them to paper - or as is often common these days - an iPad.
OUR NUMBER ONE SELLING BOW TIE
The word that often springs to mind about our Majestic Black is plump. The same way the old masters painted women with a great fullness, which in those days suggested sexuality, sensuality and fertility; so our Majestic Black is perhaps more plump to suggest a higher caste of bow tie.
It's centre knot crease, the dimples on either side, the drape it offers on the underside along with the richness of the black satin silk we use - all of this plays into the presence of our best selling bow tie. Of course, if you hear it from me you will think there is a great deal of shill which is why today I am sharing the thoughts of one of our most recent Google reviews from David Paul in Hawaii.
Please read what he has to say.
It's centre knot crease, the dimples on either side, the drape it offers on the underside along with the richness of the black satin silk we use - all of this plays into the presence of our best selling bow tie. Of course, if you hear it from me you will think there is a great deal of shill which is why today I am sharing the thoughts of one of our most recent Google reviews from David Paul in Hawaii.
Please read what he has to say.
Testimonials - We Love Them! Tell Us About Your Experience
It can be rather lonely in the Studio sometimes cutting silk and since many of our customers are overseas we don't always get to meet many of our customers face to face. So it is great when we hear from you and it's nice to get compliments, it makes it all worth while, but it's also nice to get suggestions and ways in which we can improve our products and services. So, below are some recent bits of feedback and please if you have any questions at all - simply text or Whatsapp +61413140994 - my name is Nicholas
Notes On The Weekend
This past weekend I went down to the mountains again and I was fortunate enough to arrive just as it began to snow. A very early snow. With flakes so large that outside of Michelago that I stopped my car just to soak it all in. The first snow of the season never grows old. A certain magic feeds into your day, and as guilty as I felt leaving the Sydney that weekend, where, fortunately, I did not have any wedding appointments due, those apprehensions dissolved instantly and were replaced by a sense of adventure. My car is all wheel drive, but I did not have winter tyres. The snow was falling so thick that my main concern was whether the road was going to turn into a slip and slide and what speed I ought to take.
WHAT HAPPENED TO ELEGANCE?
What happened? It finally spilled over didn't it? Tom Ford exited the building, Karl was now dead. Wintour was losing her relevance. I say relevance and not touch. Out of touch is this terrible expression that gets bandied around these days along with reading a room and evolving and so on. We are all expected to jump on board with the ridiculous train wreck of the new guard who don't know whether they are men or women, are figuring out where on the alphabet they sit on the rainbow flag, who use words like narcissism like it's nobody's business. And because the rest of us sit in fear of cancellation and therefore remain silent, we watch these people and I say "these people" with a touch of humour because I really don't know who "these people" are and I don't think if you could narrow them down to a "people" that they would know themselves who they are either. That is part of the conundrum. Everyone is so freely moving around these days exploring themselves that they have become like Viet Cong in the jungle, they are are everywhere, but trying to find a fixed location on one target, impossible.
What's With The Tennis Bracelets?
Don't get me wrong, I was dead against the stacks for a long time. So much so that I would lay into a particular friend that used to turn up to our beach swims in the mornings with the latest Nike and Adidas sportwear and a big stack on his arm behind his apple watch. But, I caved in. Firstly I caved in because this same person had a memento mori skull bracelet - and I have always been a fan of anything memento mori. Then later still I came to embrace something, well, something that might have only spawned out of the transgender confusion and milieu that came over the past few years as everyone got lost in the pronouns and everything got shoved into the blender, on the other side of it all, no, I would venture to say, quietly during all the confusion, that's better, I decided well to hell with it I am going to start wearing tennis bracelets if nobody knows anymore what is Martha and what is Arthur. This new project is a tri colour RZ stone on a sterling silver setting which is for the unisexuals, the gender 0's and gender 1's and the gender 10 and 01's. In this new world you can wear anything you want to, and I choose tennis bracelets because I once wore heels as Dame Edna and let me tell you this, life's a bitch when you want to be a lady.