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10/29/09
And oh, Fergie. Did you mean to imply that every other modern scent is stinky? Yours is the only fresh one?
Ripert v. Cavalli: Roberto, you should have known better. Authentic French, 1; polyester rockstar, 0. #victoriabeckham
10/29/09
Also, I posed this in groupthink, but it disappeared: a facebook friend (high school classmate I haven't seen in years) posted that she's hosting a "Knock-Off Party with fake Prada, Louis Vuitton, Coach, and more" at her house. Is that legal? Should I be a debbie downer and tell her about child labor and such? #victoriabeckham
10/29/09
Ghosty girl here. Thank you for remembering me so fondly, if not my nationality.. Alas, after our photo shoot I had an epiphany: modeling bores me. To tears. I'm currently pursuing a Ph.D in comparative religion at Oxford, and generally being one happy ghost.
Happy Halloween!" #victoriabeckham
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"I'd like my perfume to smell impressionistic, I really don't want it to smell sepia-toned or anything." #victoriabeckham
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telling a cop to lower his voice is unforgivable diddy. see what i did there?
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It's strange, I used to really like Maggie Gyllenhaal, but I swear everything I've read over the last year or so has made me want to smack her.
Also: Emma Thompson is a goddess.
09/16/09
My father sets up education in programmes in developing countries,so I was born in Uganda,just as Idi Amin came to power.Then we moved to Lesotho,where we lived for eight years and where I went to school.It is a very small,independent nation with a black African government and a black royal family,and surrounded by the Orange Free State one of the most Afrikaaner of states, so I grew up in an independant black nation,under apartheid.
Then back to Uganda, where we lived in the middle of nowhere, with intermittent electricity and no running water- the lorry would bring water every day from the papyrus swamp and we would fill the bath and it was sponge baths and flushing the toilet once a day. We were the only white children some of the children in the village had ever seen- they would mob us in the market,pinching our skin and pulling hair-I'm very blonde.
Then back to South Africa and living in Cape Town.
I then went to university in England and studied Italian and English and then I spent two years in Florence, then Paris and now I live between Geneva(reluctantly)Paris and Berlin(yeah!!)
I normally spend time between two cities in a week but it's not unusual to spend time between three.
Having that kind of upbringing does mark and change you.It's only now,I'm almost forty, that I've come to realize what a privilege it is.
I've always felt extremely rootless and I went to boarding school very young and I really feel that my parents sacrificed any life we had as a family to their careers and to our education ( try having a father who is an education evangelist!),it took me a very long time to come to terms with that.
I've never stopped travelling,I've travelled all over Asia,Africa and Europe.
It is the most amazing education,the most amazing exposure to different cultures,different languages, different view points and mores,it really does open your mind.
What it taught me more than anything was that you can change things,my grandfather was a gas fitter in South London,my grandmother was housewife,she won a scholarship to continue at school but was told there wasn't enough money for her uniform so she had to leave school.
My father was the first person in his family to go university and then my brother and I automatically went - my brother to Oxford.You can change your destiny! I speak three languages,I'm pretty much at home wherever I go, because I learned to take my home with me,it's inside of me.
It's an odd upbringing, being dragged around the world and never really having a choice about it - as I said I've finally come to terms with it and relish it but at the same time it is very hard to be so rootless.
The Jolie-Pitts seem to travel as a family and the children see their siblings and are with one or both parents, if they have that kind of support I can only think that an upbringing like this is a good thing