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Fashion for the Forward
I was recently invited to preview Jo Jo Maman Bebe's summer line for 2016 and meet their designers and impressive founder Laura Tenison. It was a fun afternoon of rummaging through items yet to hit the...
View ArticleGo West
As the fashion circus leaves town for another season it's a moment to reflect. The fall-out surrounding Kanye West's Spring Summer 2016 Yeezy presentation during New York Fashion Week in September has...
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Could High Tech Fabrics Transform Fashion's Impact on Climate Change?
Your cotton T-shirt has about the same carbon footprint as driving a car for 5 miles. That may not seem like a lot, but it adds up. Each year, cotton clothing is responsible for greenhouse gas...
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Omar Mansoor Imperial Romance LFW
After New Zealand Fashion Week I had two weeks dashing around New Zealand, so on my return I only had a fleeting visit to London Fashion Week. This season the British Fashion Council headquarters moved...
View ArticleThe Search for God in 'Vogue'
The forthcoming 100th anniversary of Vogue is not just a celebration of all things fashion; the success of the magazine speaks volumes about the human psyche today. As a researcher of consumer culture...
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The Wrong Shoes
Imagine me, speeding down the high street at my normal brisk London pace, bright shop windows filled with colourful displays. Out of the corner of my eye I spot them. I squeal to a halt, reverse back...
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Art Installation Stitches Up Fashion Waste
This year, Hornsey Town Hall in London's Crouch End, opened its doors as part of a year-long community and arts initiative to bring this award winning landmark building back into use. Built in 1935 to...
View Article10 Signs You're Still a Nineties Girl
The Nineties are having a 'moment'. TFI Friday is back, chunky-soled shoes are part of the zeitgeist and Nineties nostalgia has made that tricky decade spent navigating adolescence seem way cooler than...
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The Power of the Face Workout
© AB Kellow We all know that working out regularly is good for our bodies, but what about our faces too? And what is the best science for the perfect facial? Through studies it has been proven that...
View ArticleLondon Fashion Week - Sustainable Fashion
It may be a couple of seasons since we sadly lost trail blazing showcase Esthetica and my favorite place to be found during LFW, but it's pioneering spirit lives on. Amongst the sustainable stylings on...
View ArticleWhy Gender Neutral Clothing Can Harm Girls
With an explosion of gender neutral lines for kids & babies* have you ever wondered who these clothes are really benefiting? There is it turns out a dirty truth in the supply chain of some 'gender...
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Eight Bad Lifestyle Choices that Compromise Hair Health
Bad lifestyle choices definitely affect the condition of your hair. Copious amounts of medical studies unquestionably prove that apart from genetics and biological causes such as fluctuating hormone...
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We Are Beautiful No Matter What They Say
Beauty, what is beauty? Everyday the media bombards ourselves with images of beautiful and often unrealistic looking models, which in hand can put pressure on people and their appearance. In a world...
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#NeverByMySelfie
Breast cancer charities don't have an easy job, do they? Last week saw M&S chastised by breast cancer sufferers and survivors for overtly connecting the disease with sex to sell lingerie (and...
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Why Modelling Agencies Need to Change
When I wrote an open letter to the agency that dropped me for my size on Facebook two days ago, I didn't expect the response it received. In fact, I genuinely didn't expect it to go public at all....
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When Yoga Pants Are More Than Yoga Pants: How Small Start-Ups Have a Big Role...
This post was co-authored by Helen Mincher. Fellow founder of Flip The Dog. After a decade of long, anti-social hours in digital communications, we both began to feel the same unrest with our...
View ArticleThese Women Are the Reason I Wanted to Work in Fashion
I bet you can't remember the last time you sat across from someone at dinner and neither of you reached for your phone. The last time you sat through an episode of something on Netflix and didn't find...
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Plunder East London's Fashion Treasure This Weekend
A handful of London's most exciting mens and womenswear designers are throwing a bargain-laden bash in East London's Vyner Street this weekend for our fashion-loving pleasure. It'll be a haven of...
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Interview With Sedge Beswick, Global Senior Social Media & Stylist Manager at...
I love online shopping. It comes in particularly handy when I'm racing against time to find the perfect fashion fix for an impromptu party. My first step is to look up @ASOS_Megan on Instagram to see...
View ArticleShift in Power: the Blogger and Vlogger Influence on the World of Fashion
Zoella, Sprinkle of Glitter, Inthefrow, That Pommie Girl; these are all names that are currently having an impact on the world of fashion, and with hundreds of thousands (sometimes millions) of adoring...
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