Fabergé Invades London with an Egg for the Queen and an Easter Egg Hunt

The Fabergé Diamond Jubilee Egg.

Luxury jewelry house, Fabergé, has unveiled a custom bejeweled egg honoring Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee in London Tuesday as residents scoured the city streets to begin a 40-day hunt for elaborately decorated Easter eggs in a charity benefit.

Crafted with precisely 500 grams of rose gold, the design of the one-of-a-kind Diamond Jubilee Egg is topped

Fabergé's Eggcelent Easter Hunt

Tom Parker Bowles stands among the fiberglass eggs that will be painted and hidden throughout London.

Fabergé is taking over London, turning the center of the city into a hiding place for 200 massive, elaborately decorated Easter eggs. The eggs will be strategically placed throughout the capital and entrants will have the 40 days and nights of Lent—starting on Shrove Tuesday, February 12, 2012

London Purchase: Airport Shoes

I've given up on photographing Mr. EWP's Edward Green shoes.  He keep forgetting to bring them home from the office.  Let's just say they're brown dress shoes.  And we're done.

As for me, I was actually going to leave London with nary a purchase.  But then when we were at Heathrow Airport, readying for our trip back to the states, we passed a shoe store in the airport.

They had many many normal looking shoes, many were quite cute, but, for some reason, Mr. EWP and I both were drawn to these shoes:

They're my 40's pinup shoes.  Or, as I call them, my aiport shoes.  Since I bought them in the airport.

 They're from Kurt Geiger, which I would liken to a British Aldo.  Super cute stuff and pretty reasonably priced. 

These polka-dotted wonders were on sale.  I suck at conversion from pounds to dollars, I refuse to learn since the exchange rate makes me so sad.  So let's pretend they were $40.  [They actually were more than that in pounds, but let's pretend, k?]

I'm honestly not sure where I'm going to wear them, but Mr. EWP was very encouraging of the purchase, and who doesn't need neon polka dot shoes?

London Shopping - Jermyn Street

Once upon a time a few years ago, I bought Mr. EWP a Thomas Pink shirt for a gift.  And that day a love of English tailors was born.  The man has been obsessed with the Jermyn street shirtmakers ever since.  So after my day of shopping in Paris, Mr. EWP got his very own day of shopping in London.  We headed to Jermyn Street and went from old shirtmaker to old shirtmaker. You could see the tradition of tailoring dripping from the shelves and bolts of cloth.  It really was interesting to see.  We even went to the royal family official shirtmaker, not surprisingly they didn't have anything off the rack for Mr. EWP to purchase, but some other shirt stores did - Harvie & Hudson, T. M. Lewin, and Charles Tyrwhitt.

But what Mr. EWP was most excited about, the place he has been talking about one day going to for years, was Edward Green.  Think of them as the Louboutins of men's shoes.  Or so Mr. EWP says. I choose to just take his word for it. They were rather pretty, I'll admit. For men's shoes that is.

There really is nothing like them. And you can only get them in London or Paris, they're not available online and they only have 3 stores -the ones in London and Paris.  
 While Mr. EWP tried on boring fine shoe after fine shoe, BabyWP and I decided we'd annoy the snooty sales staff by playing on the floor.  I have a policy that if I'm ponying up the money for your expensive items, then I get to do whatever I want in your store, and what I wanted to do was play with my baby and do a photoshoot. 

After buying a lifetime's supply of dress shirts, ties, and cufflinks, we took a break from Mr. EWP Shopping Day to make one little stop for me - to a fancy milliner.  I've been a little this side of obsessed with fancy hats since the Royal Wedding.

 And these ones were positively works of art.  I drooled my little heart out, but I had made my indulgent purchase the day before, so no hat for me.  And, let's be honest, I'll use that bag WAY more than I ever would a fancy fascinator.

But it sure was fun to try one on!  It was seriously SO GORGEOUS.  Absolutely a showpiece.  And only $1000.  To her credit, the saleswoman didn't scream when I grabbed it and tried it on and took a bunch of pictures of myself. 

Coming up - my London purchases.  And to make it to purchases, I'm including Mr. EWP's shoes.  I, myself, only bought one thing in London. Can you believe it?

An EWP in Paris (& London)

I'm heading out today with Mr. EWP and BabyWP across the Atlantic for a little vacay.

We'll be heading to London and Paris for some food and fun, and I hope some fashion.

But I wouldn't want to leave you on your own all week. You'd miss me too much I'm sure. So I'm declaring it EWP Review week and giving you a new restaurant review everyday. Sorry to all the non-Chicagoans. But now you'll know where to go (or not to go) when you come to visit. And really, you must visit Chicago, it's fantastic.

I'll be comparing its fantasticness to London and Paris and will report back with my findings next week.

Au revoir,

EWParis&London

Buckingham Palace to Exhibit Kate’s Wedding Ensemble and the Royal Fabergé Collection

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The Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress along with her wedding tiara and earrings will go on display at Buckingham Palace during its annual summer opening. As big as this display is for much of the world (an estimated 3 billion saw the British royal wedding), it may be overshadowed by what is considered by many to be the world’s greatest collection of Fabergé pieces

London Restaurant to Serve a Royal Wedding Piaget Jewelry Giveaway with Champagne

The exterior of Cafe Luc in London.

No, this isn’t a restaurant review. But jewelry loving readers of this website who are in London to attend the British Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton may want to make a special pilgrimage to this London eatery.
As a way to celebrate the Royal Wedding, Café Luc in the city’s Marylebone district is offering champagne lovers the chance

Tissot’s Interactive Window Display at Harrods

Those of you who read this website regularly know that Swiss watchmaker Tissot has been using augmented reality displays to market its products at department stores and online. This time, the famous Harrods department store in London gets the interactive treatment.
The company is showcasing its Ladies and T-Touch collection in one of Harrods window displays on Brompton Road as part of the

110-ct. Yellow Diamond on Display in London

The world’s largest known vivid yellow pear-shape diamond is now on display at London’s Natural History Museum. Known as the Sun-Drop, the 110-ct. diamond, mined in Africa, has been lent to the museum by Cora International—the diamond company that crafted the original rough diamond.
The famous gem was placed on display today in the museum’s “Vault,” a gallery for its “rarest, unique and most

Miami Thong Lift

We've all heard of the Brazilian bikini but Brazil isn't the only place where thongs are popular and tooshies are tight. A procedure becoming increasingly popular is known as the "Miami Thong Lift," and as its name implies, is popular in Miami, FL. The procedure was presented at the conference of British Aesthetic and Plastic Surgeons in London.

Rather than use silicone implants, grafts of fat liposuctioned from the thighs or stomach is purified and then injected into the layers of muscle of the buttocks, changing their shape. As with any procedure there are risks. While some doctors say the procedure can be done with a local anesthetic, and there is no risk of rejection since the fat belongs to the patient, once injected, the fat may not get adequate blood supply, die and be reabsorbed by the body. This could result in an uneven bum. The procedure is supposed to make the buttocks shapely and not necessarily larger. Before any surgical procedure it is important to consider all of the risks and long-term effects-- no butts about it! (I couldn't help myself).