Darlings
So much excitement.
A Lot of driving.
And a lovely Lunch with the splendidly fashionable and elegant Lanie Denslow who is not only head of her own glamorous world-international-consultancy but also international director of the fashion institute of design and merchandising most popularly called FIDM.
Where they have a splendid statue of a Veiled angel as if on a moonlight night in Venice at a masked ball.
Most glorious.
We met Lanie many years ago when we asked her to Tea (yes – an early los angeles part I teatime letter! )
And we have become friends.
Which is delicious.
Especially when Lanie picks restaurants that have Extremely teamgloria style Decor.
We went to Towne. And there were not only chandeliers but a Montage of flappers in cloche hats and Clara bow lipstick pouts and Everything. Look!
Could one Ask for a more gloriousness? We don’t think so….. Loving being back. Thank you, Lanie.
About teamgloria
I used to make my living from writing. And then it all stopped and so I went and did something else, part of which entailed a whole new look from Brooks Brothers (it wasn’t really me, but it was necessary). But a decade later I started to write again (during nights and weekends and frustrated lunch-times and long haul business travel) and one of the things I wrote (or came to me – as I do believe in the whole Muse concept) was a character called Gloria.
Gloria was a trainee angel and sat “up there” waiting for her first assignment. To occupy the hours she should have been studying humans and their foibles, she spent her time enjoying the new celestial movies-on-demand channel and became obsessed by Doris Day. So you can imagine the drama that unfolded when she came to Earth. Quite a shock to the system. But Gloria was determined to see Manhattan through the eyes of a vintage Doris Day movie and something magical started to happen – to me too.
Because I started to do the same thing and life became easier (and then I got Tobias the tumor which changed the trajectory, for now).
There are a lot of glorious people, places & things that help me get through my day – they make my life great – and so I call them “team gloria” (although they don’t usually know that). So I thought I’d start documenting them, and looking out for new people, places & things on a daily basis, and sharing them with you (whomever you are – do say hello. Oh, and tell me who your team gloria is :-)
Clara Bow! (My grandmother resembled her in some of my fave photos taken at her wedding…)
How divine. All of it.
Very gloria-styled, yes!
Wasn’t that a beautiful picture you posted of her on your site (or tumblr or pinterest?) a while ago? Beautiful.
Well, that just sounds absolutely wonderful. Thank you for including the link to the restaurant. Yes, I had to pop over before responding to read the menu, I am foodie like that. I would have had a very hard time deciding and so would have been the annoying person who holds everyone up while she hems and haws. Especially if I had such a collage in front of me. Actually if that were the case I might well be lost in such a reverie that I would let the waitperson (politically correct) simply choose for me. They always know what is best anyway.
And Lanie seems like quite the glamourous friend to have, tg. So happy for you that you have such wonderful people to help you get settled again.
*flinging bisous*
Heather – you may have noticed on the menu that “bread service is By Request” #welcometoLA (we had it – slightly chewy pretzel bread)
Remi would have quite a time of it there I am afraid. The French need their bread!
Exactement. We agree. Especially if it’s that most delicious poilane (sp?) or a just-popped-into-wax-paper ficelle and handed over with a slightly gruff “voila!”