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Comfort Food w/Class

Marmalade Brioche with Black Figs Stylist Magazine UK

A wakeup visual delight for the eyes. Recipe at Stylist

The perfect amalgamation of English and French cuisine, this decadent breakfast replaces bread with brioche but it has lashings of traditional orange marmalade, too, to give it an Anglo twist. If you want to turn this morning meal into an afternoon-tea treat, you can try using blackberry jam instead. Either way, serve a slice accompanied by a steaming hot pot of Earl Grey tea.

Monaco’s New Princess

Fit For a Princess: Charlene Wittstock Vogue US

Anne can vouch for the idea that Monaco is — well stodgy.  Prior to her weddind to Prince Albert, Charlene Wittstock lived alone in a small apartment in Monaco, thousands of miles from home and unable to speak French.

“It was sometimes overwhelming,” she recalls of the solitude and jealousies she suffered as Prince Albert’s girlfriend. “I was trying too hard to please too many people and at times was at risk of losing my sense of myself.”

Princess Charlene is now married to Prince Albert and is working to find her own individual persona in Monaco. Vogue writes that she will joke to fellow guests at charity galas that she is the only woman in the room who ate her entire dinner, plus two bread rolls.

10 Years | Brand New Store

Ikram Goldman: Time Well Spent Vogue US

Desiree Regers, 52, wears a Prabal Gurung dress and Tabitha Simmons slingbacks. Daughter Victoria, 21, wears a Thakoon tunic and skirt and Jason Wu heels. Photographed by Adam Whitehead.Legendary Chicago retailer Ikram Goldman throws wide the bright red doors of her new 16,500-square-foot flagship (complete with a café and gallery). She also sits down with Vogue to talk about generational dressing. 

During showroom visits in Paris following the fall 2011 shows, she offers an impromptu tutorial on how she shops the collections: how she might ask a designer to make a dress longer for her older clients, shorter for younger ones, or buy the more constructed Lanvin dresses for an older person, the drooping jerseys for a younger woman. At Givenchy, a purple mohair pullover embroidered with a wreath of flowers, though it seems easy and figure-forgiving, is declared anathema for all but the perfectly proportioned younger client. At Céline, a trouser with leather-stripe details is pronounced “the most perfect pant ever made!”—but, Goldman warns, you have to be very specific about the top: For a younger woman, it should be playful, and even for a more mature customer, the wrong blouse will render the whole ensemble just a bit too old.

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Honoring Families Who Serve

Michelle Obama and Jill Biden rally support for military families AARP

Outside the sunny East Room of the White House, some 200 spouses and parents of military-service members are waiting in line. It’s a slow march to the front, but nobody seems to mind: First Lady Michelle Obama and vice-presidential spouse Jill Biden have planned an elegant tea in their honor and are intent on greeting each, one by one. And so the guests present themselves. They laugh, cry, show pictures. They say, “Thank you.” They whisper tales of pain and loss — “My husband came back from Iraq, then died….I lost my son….I’d like you to have this pin.…” In return, Obama and Biden offer a hug, a squeeze of the hand, a promise of prayer. And always, a “Thank you, thank you.”

In the AARP interview the nationally popular Michelle Obama puts to rest all conversation of her running for office, as has been frequently discussed by Democrats.

On the subject of aging and being good friends with 60+Jill Biden:

Jill and I have an age difference, but [looking at] what she is doing at her age, I feel like I still have so much more to do. And that’s the beauty of it — mature women are showing us that it gets even more fabulous if you’ve got it together and maintain your health, which Jill does. She is a runner. She is eating right. She is active and engaged. If I’m where Jill is at her age, I’m a happy camper.