We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it

Do you ever get the feeling you were born at the wrong time in history? Sure, you like the 80′s or 90′s but you long to be part of something in the past.

The title of this post is a quote from John F. Kennedy by the way…

I should definitely have been born in the late 1940′s or early 1950′s – that way I could have spent my formative years in the swinging sixties. My longing is not just from watching Mad Men, although that has added fuel to fire. It’s the music, the clothes, the hair, the makeup, the cars, the whole feeling of human revolution. I love all that stuff! So, while I work on my writer’s block, here are some reminders of the decade I dig the most. Scroll all the way down for some of my own photos!


So, I started wondering what I would look like in the 1960s….

My mum is the woman above and my Dad is the last man on the right! He’s with his band “The Thunderbirds”! 

PS. My Mum won’t see this unless she’s pointed in that direction…shhh she’ll kill me! 

What decade do you belong to?

Francoise Hardy

A mysterious character came into Karen Millen the other day and told me that I reminded him of this lady of the 1960′s.

francois

I’d never heard of her before – but after watching her videos on youtube, I’ve become a bit of a fan! What a beautiful singer. In a weird coincedence, the name Francoise Hardy has just appeared in the book I’m currently reading (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). So, thank you mysterious browser: what a compliment!