Porsche is going back to the future with a ’50s inspired special edition heritage version of its new 911 Targa 4S – though it comes with a hefty £136,643 price tag. Full of added retro bling and bombast, it harks back to the heady days of soda-pops, drive-in movies and slicked back ‘DA’ hair styles. … Read more
RETRO READS By Val Hennessy for the Daily Mail Published: 22:06 BST, 21 May 2020 | Updated: 22:06 BST, 21 May 2020 CIRCLE OF FRIENDS by Maeve Binchy (Arrow £8.99, 736 pp) CIRCLE OF FRIENDS By Maeve Binchy (Arrow £8.99, 736 pp) If any author can help you survive lockdown, it’s Binchy. Reading her whopping … Read more
Retro Lemon Meringue Pie By Annie Bell For You Magazine Published: 00:02 BST, 3 May 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 3 May 2020 Of all the renditions of lemon meringue pie, it’s my mum’s retro take that I return to. I love the way it oozes syrup and the digestive crust gets increasingly louche as … Read more
Garcelle Beauvais matches face mask with retro chic leopard look as she has her car serviced in LA amid coronavirus pandemic By Glenn Garner For Dailymail.com Published: 02:59 BST, 18 April 2020 | Updated: 02:59 BST, 18 April 2020 Garcelle Beauvais recently threw some shade at one of her fellow Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. … Read more
RETRO READS By Val Hennessy for the Daily Mail Published: 22:18 BST, 2 April 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 2 April 2020 GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell (Vintage £10.99, 1,072 pp) GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell (Vintage £10.99, 1,072 pp) Locked in at home, now at least we have time to … Read more
RETRO READS By Geoffrey Wansell for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 November 2019 HOLIDAY by Stanley Middleton (Windmill £8.99, 256 pp) HOLIDAY by Stanley Middleton (Windmill £8.99, 256 pp) How to fill the time? In this vividly moving novel, Edwin, 32, strolls through a seedy seaside … Read more
Elizabeth Day: Oh my God… I’m retro! By Elizabeth Day for You Magazine Published: 00:02 GMT, 1 March 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 1 March 2020 Hair: Fabio Nogueira. Make-up: Ruby Hammer. Styling: Holly Elgeti. Blouse, Lisou. Trousers, Roland Mouret. Jewellery, Alighieri I did a spin class the other day and the instructor announced proudly … Read more
RETRO READS By Val Hennessy for the Daily Mail Published: 22:11 GMT, 23 January 2020 | Updated: 23:43 GMT, 23 January 2020 NOT AT HOME by Doris Langley Moore (Dean Street Press £10.99, 298 pp) NOT AT HOME by Doris Langley Moore (Dean Street Press £10.99, 298 pp) It’s 1945, London, and beguiling Tonia, whose … Read more