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The silk route
The Anglo-Thai designer Ou Baholyodhin has a home in London: a penthouse in Berthold Lubetkin's famous Highpoint Two building, which, with its neighbour Highpoint One, towers over the city from its northern vantage point on Highgate Hill. The antithesis to Ou's London life is a property in Bangkok. As creative director of the Thai Silk Company, Ou regularly commutes to Bangkok, where demanding schedules leave him more exhausted than he is from his life in London. Ou was born in Thailand, however, and has created a stress-free zone in his birthplace. .
Nicole Miller does timeless, not trends
If you're into trend spotting, don't study the Nicole Miller spring collection too closely. The designer declared in the notes left for the retail buyers, stylists and editors at her New York Fashion Week show that her look next season is about timelessness, not obvious trends. It made for a mix of shapes and colors on the runway Wednesday night at Bryant Park, but the link between them all was "streamlined glamour," she said. "The silhouette moves closer to the body. It emphasizes the waist and stronger shoulders highlighted by beading and military details," Miller said. Miller knows how to do a dress - it's what front-row fans like Ivana Trump and Jane Krakowski come for - and slim-cut sheaths in beige and black were among the best. In the same mood were a beige scarf-neck jacket and black wool wide-leg pants with a slim snakeskin belt, and a khaki-colored pencil skirt made of dry cotton burlap worn with a black silk blouse with miniature pompom embellishments.
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