Yearly Archives: 2013
The Hotel Ritz
Goodreads Choice Awards 2013
We interrupt Hotel Week Pt. 2 to say that CHANEL BONFIRE has been nominated for the 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards in the Debut Author category!
I am very honored and grateful for this acknowledgement and if you’re a Goodreads member, I’d like to ask for you vote. The Opening Round of voting runs from November 4th – 9th.
The link will take you there:
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2013
And while you’re there, sign up for the Chanel Bonfire Goodreads Giveaway and get a chance to win a free paperback copy of the book for yourself or to give to someone you love! The paperback will be published on November 12, 2013 and I’m giving 5 copies away so sign up now!
Thank you! Tomorrow we will return with stories of the The Ritz in Paris and later in the week, the one, the only, the fabulous Howard Johnson’s! Stay tuned.
The Inter-Continental Hotel, Paris
The Mamounia
The Marbella Club
The London Hilton
The Croyden
Hotels!
I’ll be talking about hotels all week this week but I’ve already posted about one special hotel in which a fun scene from Chanel Bonfire was set: The Hotel Sydney Opera. Here’s a link to that March 11th post!
http://chanelbonfire.blogspot.com/2013/03/hotel-sydney-opera-in-pairs.html
Jaeger
Another of Mother’s London clothing obsessions was Jaeger knitwear. Already a classic English brand founded in 1884 by Lewis Tomalin and named after German zoologist Dr. Gustav Jaeger who advocated the benefits of clothes made from animal fibers, Jaeger became chic on the same late 60s knitwear craze (some say begun by Arthur Penn’s 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde”) that influenced Ossie Clark’s reimagining of Chanel’s 1930s suits. Mother couldn’t get enough of it — the classic lines and form-fitting cut of Jaeger’s sweaters looked fabulous on her–sexy not stuffy and perfect for everyday.