This episode is about leaving the urban world behind. We dive into the tumultuous ocean mastered by surfers in the film ‘Girls Can’t Surf’, reflect on the essence of holiday style in photography book ‘Light on the Riviera’, pack our favourite Odile Collective beach bag and muse on the dog days of summer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As you pack your bag for the coast or cabin in the hills, it's time to leave the urban world behind.
It's not just a matter of swapping proper shoes for espadrilles or a clutch of breezy, unstructured linens.
This episode ushers in a change of perspective.
It's a dive into a tumultuous ocean, a dose of that hazy abandon you feel after a day on a sunny, sandy beach and a reflection on the essence of holiday style.
We'll unpack the history of unwinding on the French Riviera with the review of a new book of photography that captures the stiff jacketed beach strolls of the 19th century, the heady, scantily clad glamour of its mid century heyday, and the brash, glitzy, ultra ego captured by the exacting lens of Helmut Newton and Martin Parr.
We'll look at a brave and brilliant group of pro surfers whose fight for recognition and fair treatment is documented in a film.
Girls Can't Surf.
We'll review a modern take on the brooding Chekhov play the Seagull.
And we'll hear an audio essay on the joys of mooching around empty city streets in the dog days of summer.
I'm your host, Sophie Grove, and this is Confect Corner.
Coco Chanel obviously was an incredibly influential figure at this time as well.
She holidayed down there.
She went down on her lover's yacht, the Duke of Westminster.
And it was her that was thought to start the fashion for sunbathing and for bronzed bodies, which, you know, in the Victorian era was an anathema.
It takes about eight to 10 hours to make one bag because they collect the reeds in the fields in Alentejo, they take it back, they wash it, they let them dry in the sun, then they apply the organic dyes and then after it's dyed, then they weave it and then the last bit is that they put all the pieces together and then there's an old guy doing the handle.
I'd take an empty Venice over Oxford street any dawn, but my appreciation of London, a city I've lived in all my life, is enhanced when it becomes a quieter, less purposeful place.
Welcome to Confect Corner.
I'm your host, Sophie Grove, here in London and as usual, I'm joined by Julian Tobias and Confect Style director Marcella Palak.
But this month we have a little bit of a twist.
They are both joining me from our studio in Zurich and I'm here solo in London.