Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025The 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. 031
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Yesterday 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. 030
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social · 23/11/2024The 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 010
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The China Gallery at Palazzo Morando, Milan. An unexpected treat to stumble upon this Orientalist aesthetic room in a historic home. The wallpaper 😍👌 010
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I 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. 000
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Milan cemetery with Robert Mitchum look a likes 😍 000
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Visiting 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 📚 010
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Discovering a surprisingly dry Rose wine that is actually a dark pink in Milan 🇮🇹🍷 000
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social · 17/11/2024batsford arboretum, Cotswolds 🌲🌲🌲 000
Dr Babette Radclyffe-Thomas 蓓丽 FRAS 🐲🦄💗 @chicstranger.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The 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! 030