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Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyNovember 9, 2016

Fleur Cowles at Christie’s, Our New Girl Crush

By Amanda

Anyone in London around the 17th to 23rd November might like to take a trip to Christie’s South Kensington showrooms to view the belongings of my new girl crush going under the hammer. Fleur Cowles was an American editor known… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 31, 2016

Coming Around To The Poncho

By Amanda

The last time I wore a poncho I was about nine years old and my mum had knitted it. She knitted one for my sister too, it was white and turquoise with orange stars, had triangular fringed points and was… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessOctober 26, 2016

Going ‘Less Is More’ with Make-Up, But With Fabulous Skin

By Amanda

The facialist Sharon McGlinchey was over from her native Australia recently, in between making me feel amazing (she is my favourite facialist, evs) we hung out and chatted about having the confidence to go make-up free now we’re a bit… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 20, 2016

An Anniversary offer From Gudrun Sjõdén

By Amanda

A quick idea for your weekend planning, should you be close to a Gudrun Sjõdén store (or screen). Our favourite colour-focussed, age-positive, eco-friendly Swedish designer is celebrating 40 years in business this year. Gudrun launched her first collection in Sweden… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 19, 2016

Our Top Five Buys From Emma Cook’s Revamped Warehouse Range

By Amanda

Actually, it’s going to be more than five. Back in the spring, when the fashion press gets to see winter, much was made of the talented designer Emma Cook taking over the somewhat down-at-heel high street chain Warehouse. The always-smouldering… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyOctober 14, 2016

Frieze Fashion 2016: Skirts, Colour and More metallics

By Amanda

Possibly the most fabulous skirt and shirt look at Frieze this year was the one above, which undoubtedly came from a fancy designer, but there’s a rather similar and very good one at M&S, it’s not in yet, but I’ll… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyOctober 14, 2016

Frieze Fashion 2016: Mono Everything and the Long White Shirt

By Amanda

Mono – black and white or navy and white – was a really big thing, clothes-wise, at Frieze 2016, it looked particularly fabulous when a graphic print or spot was worked into the mix. Cropped wide trousers and a white… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyOctober 10, 2016

Freize Fashion 2016: Gentlewomen styling, cuffed trousers and pink.

By Amanda

Frieze London came around again last week, can it really be a year since the last one? TWR is lucky to have VIP access and so I did my usual brief glimpse at the very best in contemporary art followed… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutOctober 5, 2016

Makers House with Burberry, And Pop Up Fatigue

By Amanda

For those who live in London, had plenty of time on their hands and didn’t have to actually work for a living, the extraordinarily large catalogue of events and shows that surrounded the two weeks of London Fashion Week and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 3, 2016

Best Beauty Buys: Autumn

By Jane

It’s that time of year when one starts to hunker down and get cosy. FOGO starts to kick in and social engagements have to offer a guaranteed good time to lure me away from the sofa, a glass of red… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 23, 2016

Trend Alert: The Super-Star Sleeve

By Amanda

I went to a Laura Marling concert earlier this summer (above, she is marvellous, do listen to her) where Laura wore a fabulous white top with wide, romantic, eye-catching sleeves. As she played guitar, her sleeves added an extra dramatic… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 21, 2016

The One Where We Finally Got To Meet Jenny Eclair

By Amanda

When I finally got to meet Jenny Eclair last week (at a JD Williams ‘do’) after years of Twitter chatter between her and us, she greeted me with “Your blog is a joy!’ She is officially the funniest, smartest and… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 14, 2016

Trend Alert: Pale blue stripe shirts

By Jane

After five days in a sweltering New York where my personal summer was on a whole new level (think tall buildings, blasts of heat from the subways, 35 degrees and menopausal hot flushes) I was looking forward to coming home… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutSeptember 12, 2016

Hudson’s Hill Store, A Little Bit Of Retail Heaven In Greensboro

By Amanda

My stay in North Carolina was hedged with some trepidation, due to recent state issues on LGBT. Should I have followed Bruce’s example and not go? But you don’t learn about stuff unless you travel and how better to experience… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 7, 2016

A Neat Holiday Backpack from The Cambridge Satchel Company

By Amanda

Just before I left for my summer break, the Cambridge Satchel Company got in touch to ask if we’d like to wear-test some of its new styles. Nice timing, as I was wondering what bag to take on my holidays.… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 19, 2016

Sicilian summer dressing

By Jane

So the sun is shining at last and the shops are starting to fill up with Autumn clothes (don’t get me started) but as most people are only just starting to think about going on their summer holidays – here… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 15, 2016

Summer Beauty Buys

By Jane

Balance Me have sent me lots of lovely products over the last few months and I am fast becoming a fan of this natural skin care brand. The real test of a product for me, is if after testing I … Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 14, 2016

Amazon Hair with Rahua

By Amanda

One of the great things about reporting on fashion and beauty is the (occasionally) fascinating people we get to meet. So it was with Fabian Lliguin, renowned New York hair stylist and passionate environmentalist, who founded the all natural Rahua… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 11, 2016

Maye Musk for James Perse

By Jane

The new ad campaign for Californian brand James Perse‘s A/W 16/17 collection features 68-year-old model Maye Musk. A spokesperson for the 20-year-old brand says they are “trying to change customers’ expectations from the young beach set to underscore it has… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 8, 2016

Friday Athleisure Shoe Lust at ASOS

By Amanda

Athleisure isn’t just influencing clothes, shoes are also morphing into a mix of sporty comfort and smartness as new trainer hybrids appear to tempt us. I spotted these Lost Ink Terissa flatform plimsoles on a very stylish beauty editor this… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 4, 2016

Georgia O’Keeffe at Jigsaw

By Amanda

Georgia O’Keeffe’s new exhibition opens this week people…Regular readers will remember I’ve been practicing dressing like Georgia since here and never before have I been more hopeful that some great art will lift my spirits. Much like with the Barbara… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 28, 2016

Pimp My Espadrilles (if we’re still allowed to wear them)

By Amanda

What happened to the humble espadrille? Walking through Selfridges shoe department, I was dazzled- nearly blinded, if I’m honest- by the rope-and-canvas bling that now fills this shoe category. Remember the days when espadrilles came bundled together with an elastic… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 22, 2016

The Life of Pitti Peacocks, For Those of You Who Are All ‘Fashed-Out’

By Amanda

The Life Of Pitti Peacocks – Pitti Uomo Mockumentary from Aaron Christian on Vimeo. I loved this charming tongue in cheek look at the Pitti menswear show, by Aaron Christian and pointed out to us by our roving reporter Julia… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 21, 2016

Modern Rarity: Another Reason to Love John Lewis?

By Jane

We have talked for a while about the concept of “Peak Stuff” and our desire to move away from disposable, fast fashion, to buying less but better. Always on the money when it comes to tapping into the cultural zeitgeist,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 15, 2016

Style Icon: Sarah Jane Adams

By Jane

Ever since Amanda wrote about jewellery designer Sarah Jane Adams and the StyleLikeU team’s excellent What’s Underneath project, I have been slightly obsessed with her. I love her style and can’t get enough of her sportswear meets boho looks on… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 14, 2016

A Grown Up Floral at Mother Of Pearl

By Amanda

Hard to believe, I know, but it’s sale time again. It is happening quite early for fashion because it’s (yet again) not been a great season, what with us all cutting back, getting nervous about Europe and, well everything else… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 7, 2016

Broderie Anglaise Shirt Lust

By Amanda

According to this month’s Selvedge magazine (issue 70), Broderie Anglaise actually originates in Eastern Europe, but it became associated with England because we Brits went a bit mad for it in the 1800s. Since then it has wafted in and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 3, 2016

Style Icon: The Queen

By Jane

Amanda wrote a post on the queen as a style icon back in 2008 and although I am not the biggest fan of the Royals – all those properties and lack of actual jobs etc etc – I felt the… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyJune 2, 2016

Women In Art and Style: Georgia O’Keeffe

By Amanda

I know all focus is currently on the fabulous new Switch House extension to the Tate Modern in London, but tbh I’m much more excited about Georgia O’Keeffe’s retrospective coming up this July. Women artists are at last moving centre… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 31, 2016

Grown Up Boho Dresses with Ace & Jig

By Amanda

No doubt about it, the weather is warming up. For anyone who is thinking of a summer dress with an easy, boho vibe, can I suggest Ace & Jig? I was in Liberty last week and checked out the summer… Read More