Downton Abbey: the Up- and Down-stairs of Season 4

Lace, gloves, cherry and Christmas pudding ready for the premiere on Sunday January 5.

Now high tea with clotted cream and scones at hand to go down, nitty-gritty style. 

Fancy a ride?

Remember we are stuck back at Matthew’s bloody still face on the floor in the woods. A breathless year has gone by and glad that no spoilers came through the Brit fandom battalions.

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The Dowager Countess no shit … she’ll sure be the soul of the party, every day of the week.

Lord Grantham (known as the Earl of Grantham) season 3 was tough on him, blamed (not without reason) of ruining the family’s estate and investing all the money in a fishy operation. And, as if it wasn’t enough, topped it all off by being accused of Sybil’s fate. The man in the wrong place in the wrong time: bad season.

A suggestion? Stay put, grace Lady Cora with the most delightful attentions if you don’t want her to visit her mother in the US. 

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Oh, if you wanted your life a little easier, keep an eye on Tom her could be your best publisher and revive the destiny of the estate.

Just sayin’

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Lady Mary her life before-Matthew was a tortuous path to get to marry him, we wish, for her sanity and for our entertainment, that her after-Matthew will be as happily ever after as with Charlotte after she got married to her divorce lawyer. Besides, how could cousin Matthew really die?

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Edith we count of you! Still single, the only sister alive who doesn’t have to worry about heirs, titles and property management. Just fly, make us dream, travel to London more often, dance the nights away under jazz notes, 

Down-stairs Abbey

Mrs. Patmore still reigns in her royally managed kitchen.

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Bates & Anna, since jail and demure attitude are over, how about that cottage together? 

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Thomas: are we the only ones with a crunch on him? He’s not really gay, you know?

2013 the lavish + elegant + refined

the best of the best randomly picked from Vogue UK, The Cut, WWD and …

Note: I may have forgotten a bunch, please let me know what yours are.

a medley of the most stylish moments, trends, people.

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(pardon the white plastic cup, mon Dieu)

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and since we have Kate around, let’s not forget her Playboy spread

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powerfully busy

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scarily fabulous

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these 2 guys

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and these two too 

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pink

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white on white

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polka dots 

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flowers, florals, print mixing

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man of the year #moty every year, I insist

9 shortcuts for reviewing the year in record time - part II

Resuming the second semester of 2013, what more chic thing to remember that the Royal birth?

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Then August came and … back at the villa: it was all about bell bottom jeans, coming out with our love for Birkenstock without hiding in the closet, since we are still madly in love with the Jude Law male species. 

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Not to be forgotten, our post about how we revamped that love for the vintage Gucci horse bit that kept floating around at the house. 

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September came and with it the games begun: NYF, MFW, LFW and PFW 

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In October we said all I had never said … 

In November another Thanksgiving went down not before Isabel Marant pour H&M brought down the house.

Meanwhile we were all waiting for Art Basel Miami Beach 

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And to finish our man of the year (sorry Adam Levine and Pope Francis)

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