Charlotte Smith
My blogs
- Charlotte Smith
- Invalid The Darnell Collection
- Dreaming of Chanel
- Dreaming of Dior
- The Darnell Collection: 300 Years of Stunning Fashion, Charlotte Smith, Australia
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Fashion |
| Occupation | Author, Curator, Stylist |
| Location | Sydney, NSW, Australia |
| Introduction | Charlotte Smith, author, historian, and curator, has had more than her fair share of fabulous dresses and adventures. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States, she lived life to the full in London, Paris and New York before falling in love with Australia and settling in the Blue Mountains. In between juggling school lunches, Charlotte discovered she had inherited a priceless vintage clothing collection from her American Quaker godmother, Doris Darnell. Then the boxes started arriving, with more than three thousand treasures dating from 1790 to 1995, from originals by Dior, Chanel and Balenciaga to a pioneer woman′s daintily mended best dress. But when Charlotte unearthed her godmother Doris′s book of stories about the dresses and the women who wore them, the true value of what she had been bequeathed hit home. This wasn′t a mere collection of beautiful things, it was a collection of life. Women′s lives. Tiny snapshots of our joys and disappointments, our entrances and exits, triumphant and tragic. This is a book any woman who knows a dress can hold a lifetime of memories will treasure. |
| Interests | Horse Riding - three day eventing, reading, gardening, shopping (I just love to scour any kind of shop, don't have to buy though!), travelling, meeting people |
| Favorite Movies | Anything with Hercule Poirot in it, To Catch a Thief, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Believe, I Capture the Castle, most of the BBC mini-series and costume dramas |
| Favorite Music | Gypsy Kings, John Williams - guitar, Stone Roses, world music which is relaxing!, George Michael, music from Inspector Morse and any of the music from films like Chariots of Fire, Titanic, and so on. |
| Favorite Books | Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, books by Sebastian Faulks, John Buchan, Vladimir Nabokov |