The Ingredients List On Our Clothing Is Changing
As we adapt our wardrobes for more sustainable ways of dressing, you'll be choosing an item off the hanger with a different looking list of ingredients. Many fashion brands are switching to new types...
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The relationship between mental health and fashion is far more complicated than I feel it is often given credit for. One wouldn't be hard-pressed to find evidence that the fashion industry is...
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Up-Cycling: Fashion's New Crush
I realised that fashion is at an exciting turning point whilst watching a documentary at 35,000 feet on a flight. In this, the matriarch of fashion and US VOGUE editor, Anna Wintour looked me straight...
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Too Faced Bought By Estee Lauder - No Longer Cruelty Free?
(Credit: Daisily) ARE TOO FACED CRUELTY FREE? (Originally posted on Daisily) Too Faced have just been bought by Estee Lauder for around $1.45 billion. The brand has been a favourite of cruelty free...
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Why There Is Not Much Make-Up For Black Women In The UK High Street
So yesterday on ITV's This Morning, singer Jamelia was investigating the lack of black make-up in the UK high street shops. Jamelia said local stores are not stocking the full range of shades for black...
View ArticleWhat Is Sustainable Fashion And How To Get Started?
You've likely read about the tragedies including 13 garment workers who died from a fire or the waste and pollution fast fashion is causing. And you've probably noticed that after purchasing clothes...
View ArticleWhy Black Women Should Embrace Their Natural Hair
Two weeks ago, I was turned away from a Toni and Guy hair salon. 'None of our hair stylists are trained to do Afro hair,' I was told. A month ago, at a panel discussion on the lack of quality cosmetic...
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Pippa Small's Stories Through Jewellery
"They're just so cooool. It's slightly breath-taking when you see them coming into the city with this kind of independent swagger and everyone is looking, half scandalised and half in awe." Pippa Small...
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One Dress
How much power does one dress have? Image credit Justin Lambert The dress - a symbol of woman - oppression, femininity, frivolity. Â In reality one dress can mean a lot to a lot of people. The people...
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Ten Secrets To Eliminating That I Have Nothing To Wear Feeling
Credit www.vogue.com A lot of us wish that we dressed with more character, style and passaz and blame our clothes and lack of time as the trouble makers for our uninspired appearance. I am here to...
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London College Of Fashion Sustainability Initiatives "Fired Up" By Professor...
Fashion's future is about looking forward, however looking back with Sandy Black, Professor of Fashion and Textile Design and Technology at London College of Fashion, serves up a timely lesson for...
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Power Is Control Of The Story - We Want Our Clothes To Tell A Different Story
"There is nothing more important than performance, and fashion brands have to perform because of this greed - not a percent or two per year, but at least 10 percent quarterly, even when we're talking...
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A Mindful Gift Guide For Christmas
Photography Johanna Ruebel, Model Rosalie@IZAIO Management Words Dorte Lange via LISSOME Christmas is coming closer and so is the end of 2016. I enjoy this time of the year as a moment of...
View ArticleHow It Became Fashionable NOT To Wear Fur
In October, a group of leading young fashion designers, including Hannah Weiland of Shrimps, Molly Goddard, and Faustine Steinmetz, wrote to students at Central Saint Martins urging them not to use fur...
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London College Of Fashion And Kering - Fashion Sustainability And Education...
Professor Frances Corner, Head of London College of Fashion opened the 3rd annual Kering Talk with the comment that when LCF moves to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2020, all the faculties and...
View ArticleLeather And Fashion
I have always been a huge animal lover; I am a vegetarian, I donate to several animal charities and of course I spend a lot of time spoiling my pets. But recently I was forced to reevaluate my...
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Top Skin Tips For How To Survive The Winter Months
(Credit:Hermitageclub.com) As a surgeon and skin specialist, my work has taken me around the world researching skin function, complex skin types, skin grafting and burns. However, I see patients every...
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The Five Shopping Fears. Which One Do You Have?
Credit: www.bando.com So many of us have an unhealthy relationship with shopping. During the 15 years that I've worked in the retail and fashion industry I have seen a lot of these relationships at...
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Evolution Of Street Style Fashion
Street style fashion, also called the tricked up fashion, has been in existence amongst us since the beginning of time, but it was not until the 1950's that street fashion became valued and given a...
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I Am Curve
If I were to say I worked as a model, what would you imagine I looked like? What body type would I have? Would a figure that is in proportion, thin, a size 8 and below with a 24" inch waist come to...
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