Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗

The Face Magazine: Culture Shift press preview @ the National Portrait Gallery

The exhibition celebrates iconic fashion images and portraits from The Face, a trail-blazing youth culture and style magazine that has shaped the creative and cultural landscape in Britain and beyond.

Workers from the Kingsland factory in Cambodia celebrate winning their unpaid wages and severance, following three months of vigil and protest camp in front of the factory and an international campaign to pressure brands to pay. Heather Stilwell.

📢 #NewPublication alert @intellectbooks.bsky.social International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles Issue 3:2
My interview "The challenge of the next decade" w 💚 Anna Bryher, policy lead, @labourlabel.bsky.social + fab articles & reviews incl @chicstranger.bsky.social on Future Fabrics Expo

💂🩰 The Nutcracker 🩰💂
🌟🩰 English National Ballet 🩰🌟
#FamilyTime #FirstBallet #girlsday
@chicstranger.bsky.social 💕

❤️🍞🍯🥯 #FoodOfTheGods
#FrenchToast and #CharSuiBeigel

@hoko.london #HongKongCafe with 🧡 @chicstranger.bsky.social #BrickLane

"There's no fun like work"
Harry Gordon Selfridge.

❤️ @chicstranger.bsky.social & I had so much fun @ Selfridges
on a #BTS tour for Ravensbourne MBA Fashion Business & MSc Intl Fashion Marketing students.
Enjoyed seeing #sustainability initiatives including 🐝 hives and preloved toys 💚

Aw mum thank youuu 💙💙💙 you're too kind!

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Happy happy birthday darling Babette!!
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💕💕 Truly the most wonderful daughter anyone could hope for 💕💕 @chicstranger.bsky.social

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Wolf Hall is such great TV. Wow. I absolutely love this show. So glad I decided to rewatch all of season 1 before starting this new season. Gorgeous costumes and really gripping

Yesterday I went to see the phenomenal ballet MADDADDAM at the royal ballet and opera.
When I read Margaret Atwood’s dystopian epic of annihilation and survival I had no idea how on earth it could be put on stage and adapted into a ballet but the creative team blew me away.

The Nuremberg Trial by R W Cooper 📚
A fascinating read with lots of quotes and insights from the trials. I'm really interested in the trials - such a momentous historic event, the international collaboration, all the different languages, the evidence etc. I hope to plan a weekend to visit Nuremberg

💕#Barbie @chicstranger.bsky.social for The Costume Society

The world of Barbie®: Design Museum exhibition review In this week’s blog, The Costume Society’s News Editor Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas reviews Barbie® at the Design Museum.

My review of the design museum Barbie exhibition is live over on costume society if you fancy a weekend read 💙

Link: costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/th...

❤️ #FashionFriends wonderful to host ⭐ Younus Desai Directory Fashion @ Ravensbourne University, generously sharing his experience & expertise in luxury fashion and lifestyle recruitment with my MBA Fashion & @chicstranger.bsky.social MSc International Fashion Marketing students who were captivated

I can't wait for this! Fingers crossed for some costume designs 🤞🤞

The China Gallery at Palazzo Morando, Milan.
An unexpected treat to stumble upon this Orientalist aesthetic room in a historic home. The wallpaper 😍👌

I recently read Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert 📚
Fascinating to read how cotton has defined and shaped global capitalism. It's a very detailed, well researched book spanning continents and centuries, and I found it a very informative read.

Milan cemetery with Robert Mitchum look a likes 😍

Visiting famous fashion retail destination 10corsocomo - great to see it after visiting the Shanghai and Seoul locations many years ago and super friendly retail assistants here. Love the bookstore selling out of print rare fashion books 📚

Discovering a surprisingly dry Rose wine that is actually a dark pink in Milan 🇮🇹🍷

batsford arboretum, Cotswolds 🌲🌲🌲

The best breakfast spot in London by far ✨

Delicious food, huge portions, good affordable prices and the loveliest team running @ cafe_croftonpark 🧇🧇🧇

I had the Caribbean breakfast - plantain, scrambled eggs 🍳, mackerel fish 🥑 and 🫘 delicious!