Auction catalogues can reveal a lot about a person - their lives, loves and style. Sarah Jane Adams, a jewellery and antiques dealer who became an international model and Instagram sensation overnight in her 60s, tells her story through a lifetime's collection of rare pieces, valuable jewellery and worthless objects, as well as personal photographs and effects from her 'estate'.
A former punk, rebel and single mother of twin girls, Sarah Jane Adams was sent to boarding school as a young child, where she soon learned the value of packing her belongings for a quick getaway. Modelling her style upon Jimi Hendrix and Keith Richards throughout the late 1960s and early '70s before becoming a punk, this globe-hopping iconoclast dealt and traded her way around the world, living a gloriously technicolour life.
Told with wit, pathos and charm. Life In A Box illustrates how style is always deeply personal to the wearer, laden with rich meaning and adventure and above all, redolent of our stories.
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Debra Messing TBC Lyn Slater TBC
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Chapter 2 A Difficult Child |
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Chapter 3 My Secret Identity |
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Chapter 4 My Ride to Independence |
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Chapter 5 Link to Another Life |
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Chapter 6 Living Off Our Wits |
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Chapter 7 Aroma of the Beedi |
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Chapter 8 I Made the Move |
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Chapter 9 It Feels Like Home |
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Chapter 10 One Long Summer |
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Chapter 11 Don't Believe in Coincidences |
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Chapter 12 Crossing Boundaries |
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Chapter 13 Change is a Constant |
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Chapter 14 Juggling Madly |
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Chapter 15 My Wrinkles are My Stripes |
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Born in post-war England, Sarah Jane Adams is an antique jewellery dealer, designer and model who started the hashtag #mywrinklesaremystripes on Instagram. Since going viral on Ari Seth Cohen's Advanced Style blog, SJ has gained hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram; graced the catwalk at Melbourne Fashion Week for Camilla; shot a major TV campaign for H&M in London and travelled the world, hosted by various brands for her role as an Influencer. She is represented by talent agency IMG and lives in Sydney, Australia.
