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FINNIES THE JEWELLER
TIMELESS
2017/18
TIMELESS
[ WELCOME ]
Welcome to Timeless.
“Create your own style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
We love these words from Dame Anna Wintour, the legendary Vogue editor. In a small way, that’s what we help our customers do every time they come in to the store in Aberdeen, shop from us online or feel inspired by our Facebook and Instagram posts. And it’s not about being ultra-fashionable or trying to channel Elizabeth Taylor. We’re never happier than when we see people successfully evolving a unique look that layers all kinds of pieces, precious or otherwise. That’s personal style, in a nutshell.
Thinking about style is what inspired this year’s issue of Timeless. Whether we realise it or not, there are tastemakers all around us, subtly influencing our decisions as to what we wear, which car we drive, how we decorate our homes, or what sort of hotel experience we’d like, for our precious holidays.
With this in mind, we asked the best fashion critic in the world, Sarah Mower MBE, to name her top two British designers working today. The answer? Christopher Kane in womenswear and Charles Jeffrey in men’s – both from Glasgow. You can read her views on the current flowering of Scotland’s fashion scene – and what lies behind it – on page 18. Elsewhere, Pamela Goodman, travel editor of House & Garden, talks trends in luxury travel, where design has become an integral part of the experience (p47); Alex Doak does a fantastic 2,000-mile roadtrip in a Bentley, to visit the Breitling watch factory in Switzerland (p41); Geraldine Coates delves into the backstory behind artisan gin, surely the biggest drinks craze ever (p32); Alice Hart-Davis tells us what really works in skincare (p25); and Karoline Newman takes a lighthearted look at lifestyle directions – what’s on the horizon for 2018 and beyond?
Alongside our style-focused features, we’ve chosen a huge variety of super-stylish jewellery to show you this year. We photographed some of it at an old-school Hollywood-style pool party (p52) and the rest you can enjoy browsing in the back half of the magazine.
So whether your muse is Coco, Audrey, Elizabeth, Rihanna or Lewis (Hamilton), we hope we’ve inspired you to go out and find your own style. We'll be waiting to serve you, when you do.
SARAH DAWSON MATTHEW FINNIE
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