Battle Against Dark Under Eye Circles
It is said that 9/10 people suffer from dark circles beneath their eye, but I honestly think everyone struggles to keep them at bay. To win the fight, or at least reduce them to something you can...
View ArticleOn Rana Plaza, Living Wages, a Broken Industry - and How to Fix It
This blog is part of a month-long focus around sustainable fashion across HuffPost UK Style and Lifestyle. Here we aim to champion some of the emerging names in fashion and shine a light on the truth...
View ArticleTrendtastic - Do You Really Love It?
No really, do you? With fashion month in full swing, I got to thinking - what's the deal with trends? Don't get me wrong, I love to see the process of a trend taking place, but do we all really love...
View ArticleThe Andean Worldview - an Alternative Economic Model?
This blog is part of a month-long focus around sustainable fashion across HuffPost UK Style and Lifestyle. Here we aim to champion some of the emerging names in fashion and shine a light on the truth...
View ArticleHow Your T-Shirt Saves the World
This blog is part of a month-long focus around sustainable fashion across HuffPost UK Style and Lifestyle. Here we aim to champion some of the emerging names in fashion and shine a light on the truth...
View ArticleThe Waste Revival: Turning Surplus to Success
This blog is part of a month-long focus around sustainable fashion across HuffPost UK Style and Lifestyle. Here we aim to champion some of the emerging names in fashion and shine a light on the truth...
View ArticleMy Art Was Born From My Father's Jacket
This blog is part of a month-long focus around sustainable fashion across HuffPost UK Style and Lifestyle. Here we aim to champion some of the emerging names in fashion and shine a light on the truth...
View ArticleIt's Time to Listen
We live in a society that likes to put labels on people, based on little more than a lack of understanding, stereo types and generalization. Having been born with mild cerebral palsy and slight...
View ArticleBeing Boring's Best
New research has found that we are gullible types who will believe anything that comes after the phrase "new research has found". Well, I might have found the sticking point of disbelief - new research...
View ArticleLondon Fashion Week Frows, Freaks and Major F Ups
London Fashion Week. Those three little words that make people become walking advertisements for how apparently cool and wacky they are. And this year was no exception! I realised I was already being...
View ArticleNew Zealand Fashion Week 2015 - Edition One
It's been a while since I've blogged on the Huffington Post, no real reason - life just gets in the way. All this blogging, event attending, keeping up with instagram, twitter, now Alexa Chung's...
View ArticleWhy I Took Up the 'No New Clothes for a Year' Challenge
In January 2015, after the usual excessiveness of Christmas, I made a bold decision to take a 'no new clothes for a year' challenge. Some years ago, when I first launched my blog, I committed to ending...
View ArticleKevin Geddes Brings the Evel to London Fashion Week
I wanted to meet Kevin Geddes for personal reasons. Personal in the sense that Kevin, like me, is a pattern-cutter turned designer and owner of his namesake label. He is a rare, creative, frank person...
View ArticleWhy I Am Putting My Name Out in the Jewellery World to Back Fairtrade Gold
When I started my eponymous beauty company twenty years ago with my good friend Kim Buckland, we had little idea we were starting a revolution in the world of naturally based skincare. Using botanicals...
View ArticlePost Fashion Week Recovery
You may have gathered from my previous post that the hustle and bustle of London Fashion Week left me fashion weak - both mentally and physically, and on top of that I had blog posts to shoot, clothes...
View ArticleIs 'Nude' Racist?
As a fashion writer, I naturally spend a lot of time describing clothes. Whether it's this season's 'must-have awkward length trousers', 'on point peplum palazzo pants', or 'essential autumnal cat...
View ArticleBest Formal Men's Shoes for a Wedding
Without a doubt the most popular enquiry I get is to give advice on what to wear for a wedding. Even though I'm on a relentless battle to change this, for most gent's dapper attire is saved for a...
View ArticleUndressing Mr Darcy
Actor Colin Firth was originally intended to appear naked in the 1996 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice. As the broody Mr Darcy he was to encounter Miss Elizabeth Bennett in glorious full-frontal...
View ArticleFashion and Feminism
I love that the suffragette movement used colours to represent their cause - Green (Give), White (Women), Violet (Vote). Maybe I'll bring it back for Fair Trade and make my next collection entirely in...
View Article24 Hours at a Sustainable Fashion Startup
At it's best, sustainability is a dry topic. At it's worst, it's downright dull and preachy. Sustainable fashion in particular conjures up dowdy hemp and patchwork princess dresses made from old...
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