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Art & Culture, Out & AboutSeptember 30, 2016

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes: Carmen Herrera – 101 And Going Strong

By Amanda

Our intrepid guest blogger, Elena Bowes, has visited the Whitney’s exhibition in New York, on Carmen Herrara, one of the oldest living women artists still working. Still painting – and taking a small scotch after lunch – daily, Carmen is… Read More

Out & AboutJune 23, 2016

The older women of the East End

By Jane

There’s something about older women in London – they have an attitude and confidence which enables them to stand out from the crowd and take control. They get seats on buses, bring people together to chat in public places and… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, UncategorizedSeptember 24, 2015

Hope: A new fashion Brand for the over 40s

By Jane

It’s not everyday (or any day tbh) that a new range that’s aimed at the over 40s launches. So when an email popped into my inbox asking if I wanted to talk to Nayna McIntosh the founder of new brand… Read More

Out & AboutMay 26, 2015

Sandi Toksvig for Prime Minister, please.

By Amanda

I don’t know how I missed this, since I’m Sandi Toksvig’s biggest fan, but she’s starting her own political party, The Women’s Equality Party, all about women! HOW did this pass me by? Sandi is leaving my favourite Radio 4… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, UncategorizedMay 19, 2015

Older style inspiration

By Jane

As I’m struggling with my attempts to go grey (more of this to follow) I thought it might be time for some style inspiration, featuring the kind of uber chic women you see on the streets of New York and… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingFebruary 18, 2015

Have I Said Too Much? by Carole White

By Amanda

Fessing up, I haven’y read this yet, but I bet it’s fabulous. You may remember we interviewed Carole back here, where she was extremely entertaining and very candid on the state of the fashion model industry. She has run her… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 18, 2015

Another new brand to watch: Day In A Life

By Amanda

It’s been busy old start to the year fashion wise, what with all the excitement on ‘older’ and then the new Finery brand to get excited about (did you buy? I did and it’s lovely stuff). Now here’s another, smaller… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 22, 2014

Weekend Woman: Katherine Hamnett

By Amanda

There’s been much talk recently of T shirts with slogans on. Last week Jane went to a press launch (of this book) and met up with the wonderful Katherine Hamnett, creator of the original slogan T shirt. Coincidently I’d been… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 4, 2014

Weekend Woman: Diane Keaton

By Amanda

Often on TWR we are asked what the ‘rules’ are for dressing once you get older. When we first started the blog (six years ago next week) we wanted to be helpful, so we’d suggest a few pointers; perhaps watching … Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 23, 2014

GrownUpCore: The impact older women have had on fashion

By Amanda

We’ve gone a bit back-to-school-homework-topics with our approach to fashion discussion this week on TWR. Jane’s show-and-tell post yesterday questioned the relevance of designers who still produce clothes better suited to an over-sexed Barbie than today’s modern female. Today I’m… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJune 27, 2013

Street Style: Arty dressing at the Venice Biennale

By Amanda

I was in Venice last weekend for the Art Biennale and so I took the chance to shoot a few stylish exhibition attendees. It was gloriously sunny (remember what that’s like?) so I concentrated on women who had got that… Read More

Art & CultureFebruary 2, 2013

Suzanne Lacy’s Silver Action project at Tate Modern

By Amanda

Tomorrow, Sunday 3rd Feb, we will be acting as recorders/witnesses at Tate Modern Tanks space for the awesome Suzanne Lacy and her Silver Action art performance. We wrote about Suzanne’s work with older women for The Crystal Quilt project here, … Read More