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The Five Reasons Why Changing Your Wardrobe Will Help You Change Your Life
Photo Credit @laurentfranks Change happens. We wish change would happen to us, we wish change hadn't happened to us, we are finding change hard to deal with. Whatever your status at the moment, the...
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How Women Can Change How They're Portrayed In Advertising
When I left a long career in finance to set up my own officewear label, Rose & Willard, one of my first decisions was to always show honest and diverse images of women. No caricatures, no sexing up...
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Copenhagen Fashion Summit Sets The Tone For Global Sustainability Agenda
Image: Copenhagen Fashion Summit 2016 On the eve of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, 2017, Eva Kruse, CEO & President of Global Fashion Agenda, the driving force behind the now annual summit, spoke...
View ArticleBrand Transparency In An Age Of Post-Truth
Arriving at this year's annual MET Gala, supermodel Gisele Bündchen chose to grace the Green Carpet in a beautiful silver gown designed by Stella McCartney. Not a new emerald walkway, but a challenge...
View ArticleThe Challenge Of Kawakubo's Comme Des Garçons For Feminists
The spectacle of the Met Gala was remarkable this year, not only for its opulent celebration of fashion, but also because it is the second time in history that the theme has been the work of a living...
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Five Reasons Why It's Better FOR YOU To Buy Ethical Clothes
People like me often talk (bang on and on) about ethical clothes and the benefits for those people creating them and for our planet too. That's all very well but, let's face it, however selfless we are...
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Upcycling And The Circular Economy
Our world is naturally circular. Earth's ecosystems, when left alone, are self-sustaining. Most living things have a symbiotic relationship with the planet, giving as much as they take. One example of...
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Copenhagen Fashion Summit Calls For Circularity, Collaboration And Innovation
'Is that Dhaka?', I wondered as a film taking us on a tour through a rabbit warren of a damp, dark textile workshop played on the backdrop of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit stage. It's actually Gujarat...
View ArticleCatch 22 - Black Hair Do Care
Every Friday, after school I would sit in between my mum's legs and brace myself for the painful detangling that involved oil and a "comb casualty" (the teeth of the comb breaking off under the tyranny...
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Muslim Fashion And Muslim Clothing Is Not A Uniform: How Diverse Is The...
From Istanbul to London and Dubai to New York, in the last decade, the modest fashion industry is beginning to gain recognition by mainstream brands in the West. After the world's largest online modest...
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Copenhagen Fashion Summit's Voices Of Politics, Diversity And Change
Former Dean of Parsons School of Design, Simon Collins, served up the most pointed of all questions to New York based designer Prabal Gurung when he asked "would you dress the first lady?" Prabal,...
View ArticleGuide To Hair Styles For Spring/Summer 2017
For men with hair shorter in length, styles with short back and sides remain dominant. Most men are employing this style, with a varying difference in length on top. Be ahead of the trend This is about...
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Ten Ways To Customise Your Engagement Ring
It's no secret; the way people shop for engagement rings is evolving. Custom-made design caters directly to this new wave of wildly creative individuals who are bent on inventing themselves. Thanks to...
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Why Are Girls So Nasty?
So, I'm sat at work, minding my own business. I over hear what I presume was a mother talking to her teenage daughter, sniggering and laughing in my direction. "Have you seen the state of that" "Who...
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Why Are Girls So Nasty?
So, I'm sat at work, minding my own business. I over hear what I presume was a mother talking to her teenage daughter, sniggering and laughing in my direction. "Have you seen the state of that" "Who...
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Nourishing Your Skin, From Within
When looking at our skin and how we take care of it, we must consider it as another organ of the body that needs nourishing and keeping healthy. Did you know that, 60% of what we put on our skin from...
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The Barbershop Can Save A Man's Life
Two years ago I lost a very close friend to suicide. We'd been close since we were teenagers and had shared many memories together. The whole thing was very sudden and unexpected. When I arrived at my...
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Click Your Heels To Start The Dishwasher - Smart Trainers Versus Traditional...
Portfolio image: Adriana Goldenberg Surrounded by students crafting leather on lasts using traditional methods, Adriana Goldenberg stands alone as the only student on the BA (Hons) Cordwainers...
View ArticleSummer Dressing: Style Nirvana Or Seasonal Nightmare?
"I like heavy coats and buckled boots and funnel-neck sweaters that weigh more than Cardiff. Floaty, happy, swirly summer stuff makes me uneasy", so said Claudia Winkleman, writing in The Sunday Times...
View ArticleThe Art Of A Good Beard
Twenty years ago, they were the preserve of the elderly, academic, or the middle-aged. But now beards are ubiquitous among twenty-somethings in the UK, following an explosion in popularity that has...
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