Let's Be Friends, Fashion's Latest Trend #LFW AW16
There is nothing ground-breaking here. No big fashion secrets being revealed, or information from a reliable source. If you're looking for grand historical references, then look to loftier fashion...
View ArticleThe Wearable Trends of LFW
OK, so let's be honest. Who's going to be flashing their spanx in a sheer McQueen-inspired frock this Chrimbo? Or rocking a multicoloured fro as they pootle around Sainsburys? And I can't really see...
View ArticleBeauty and Diversity: A Note on Diversity in the UK Cosmetics Market
There is an uncomfortable conversation that I have on an almost consistent basis when I attend a new makeup launch, which is to do with the universality of a product or the availability of a diverse...
View ArticleThe Future of Fashion? More Diversity
The UK fashion industry has a lot to be proud of. It provides nearly 800,000 people with work and has delivered one of the most high profile events of the year - London Fashion Week. There have been...
View ArticleHow to Wear the Trends of London Fashion Week Right Now
London Fashion Week concluded last week and it was an amusing marathon going through one show after another. Julian Mcdonald blew me away with his theatrical presentation, Faustine Steinmetz with the...
View ArticleSpring '16 Fashion for Your Body and Sole
Spring is upon us! And soon we'll be putting away the faux furs and boots in exchange for light and floaty attire ready to show more skin for warmer weather. London Fashion Week last year was just a...
View ArticleThe Beauty Brands Harnessing Happiness Over Unrealistic Aspiration
Beauty adverts are many things to many people - iconic, aspirational, dishonest, Photoshopped, damaging. But, universally, they are inescapable. Despite the recession, the UK beauty industry is...
View ArticleProvenance and Story Take Fashion to New Heights
Every once in a while, I find it beneficial to pause my eco mission and join the wider fashion crowd to see what's happening. An interesting and informative place to go is PURE London, arguably one of...
View ArticleBuying Ethically?
Behind the glamour of London Fashion Week and the aspirational images in glossy magazines is the reality of the global fashion industry: a grim picture of women living in abject poverty, struggling to...
View ArticleWhy I Am Embracing, Not Erasing, Experience
'You're so brave. I could never do it.' Brave? I stopped dying my hair. Should it feel brave not to dye my hair? This was one of many, many comments. For myself, I like it, I think the colour suits...
View ArticleDon't Forget The Most Important Fashion Weak
For most of us out there, the deepest we'll entrench ourselves in the Fashion Weeks of the world is a quick squiz at the Mail Online to see who's wreaking scandal in the latest Burberry. We're far too...
View ArticleSmall and Beautiful
Parvin sits on the bed in a small dark room where she lives with her three year old son Rasul in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. She shares the room with another woman and her child. The bed takes up...
View ArticleCataclysm on the Catwalk
I find it paradoxical that fashion, an industry that thrives on newness, is also known for its rather traditional ways of thinking. So, when Burberry announced its game-changing in-season fashion...
View ArticleA Fashionably Late Fashion Week Post
Just when you thought you'd heard the last of Fashion Week for another season, here's my London Fashion Week roundup in all its fashionable glory. Fashionably late that is. As I mentioned in my post...
View ArticleLondon Fashion Serves up Films, Fraying and Fizz
Continuing my Autumn/Winter 16 London Fashion Week round-up by way of the Curzon Soho, I attended a fun, cheeky and very English affair for recently launched luxury accessories brand Hill &...
View ArticleVogue 100 A Century of Style
My fascination with taking baths when on photographic shoots or in strange places such as large stately homes, may possibly have derived from viewing an image in an exhibition of Lee Miller in...
View ArticleThe Invisible Women Who Stitch Our Shoes
The phrase 'sweatshop labour' conjurs up images of factory settings in far away lands with row upon row of machines operated by young women, all working long hours for poverty pay to earn profits in...
View ArticleThree Ways the Conscious Fashion Movement Is Raising Its Game With Millennials
The millennial generation, oh so coveted by marketers, is the primary driving force behind the go-green revolution. From food to consumer products, companies must adopt the values of sustainability,...
View ArticleThe Garment Industry Monster
The garment industry is a monster- why can't we find more diverse clothing? My Mother grew up after the war at a time when most wardrobes were home- made, my grandmother was a gifted seamstress, and...
View ArticleInside My Natural Makeup Bag: A Better Kind of Beautiful
Many, many moons ago when I worked as a model in my late teens, I used to adore the hair and makeup sessions, watching the slow art of transformation with glee, awe and wonder as my blank and...
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