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Fashion & BeautyMay 25, 2013

Something for the weekend: Hermes Festival des Metiers

By Amanda

If you chance this weekend, catch the last day of the Hermès Festival des Métiers at the Saatchi Gallery in the Kings Road London. It’s on until the 27th May and lets you glimpse into the ateliers of Hermès by… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 22, 2013

Red Cross Vintage moves to Buckingham Palace Road

By Amanda

A quick mention for our friends over at the Red Cross vintage store in Victoria, who have moved around the corner from the old Ebury Street site to a magnificently sized new store on Buckingham Palace Road. You may remember… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 20, 2013

Royal Apothic launches at Anthropologie Kings Road

By Amanda

Just launched at Anthropologie in the Kings Road is Royal Apothic, a Los Angeles/London based perfume and beauty brand founded by the effervescent Sean O’Mara and it’s rather lovely. Finding a well priced perfume that is a quality smell and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 20, 2013

More perfume for teenage boys (and girls) from Gorilla Perfume

By Amanda

This post is a follow on from the perfume for Teenage Boys post I did recently and it’s also for our reader Tiffany, who mentioned she had a teenage skater boy to buy for and did we have any ideas?… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 16, 2013

Five things to buy at &Other Stories

By Amanda

For anyone whose been living under a rock for the last couple of months, & Other Stories is the big new brand launch from the H&M portfolio, we mentioned it here. Now the opening excitement has passed and we’ve had… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 14, 2013

Five things to buy at Jaeger’s Boutique Gallery

By Amanda

Last week the weather got warm enough for me to think about spring clothes and this sartorial urge gave me an excuse to visit the new Boutique Gallery space at the Jaeger store in Regent Street. I’d read about this… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyMay 10, 2013

Punk: Chaos to Couture

By Jane

I have to admit to spending a lot of time on Tuesday on the SCOS (more than the usual couple of hours? – I hear you ask), as I simply couldn’t stop trawling though the endless images of celebrity after… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 9, 2013

Grown up ways to sell, from Harvey Nichols

By Amanda

As we all buy more online, retailers are working hard to try and figure out how to tempt us back into their stores. The up-side of this is that our demographic (being a bit better off than the student-debt ridden… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 8, 2013

Last time I looked, trainers were white: neon trainers from Nike and New Balance

By Amanda

One of the more horrid aspects of increased age is the impact on health. Once robust and invincible friends have started to crumble with age-related illnesses, so in order to get a teeny bit fitter and healthier, I’ve started to… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 1, 2013

It’s all about the cat eye!

By Jane

So it’s time to start thinking about sunglasses as the sun seems to be shining at last. Here in London, sunglasses appear to have taken on a whole new level of importance for stylish folk, as we have adopted the… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutApril 29, 2013

The Vogue Festival

By Jane

This weekend I spent some time at the Vogue festival on the Southbank. It promised to be an interesting two days with an impressive line up of speakers from the media and fashion industry. The founder of Net-a-Porter Natalie Massenet… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 23, 2013

Julia Lundsten for Nokian – nice wellies!

By Jane

It may be a strange time to be talking about wellies, but anyone who owns a dog knows we are not quite out of the mud yet when it comes to appropriate footwear for a walk in the park/marshes/hills. Over… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 22, 2013

The best perfumes for teenage boys

By Amanda

Last of the perfume blogs for a bit, I promise, but I was asked by a couple of readers about first fragrances for teenage boys, so I rounded up some opinions from both experts (my perfume friend Andrew Tucker) and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 12, 2013

Hasbeens pop up (it’s time to start thinking about sandals)

By Jane

WIth the weather rumoured to be nice at the weekend (we’ll believe it when we see it TBH), it might be time to start thinking about summer sandals. We just can’t get enough of our Hasbeens and have I worn… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 11, 2013

John Rocha’s glasses collection for Specsavers

By Amanda

Specsavers has teamed up with John Rocha to produce a range of 13 glass styles that launch this week on line and in Specsaver stores. I love John Rocha and his recent AW13 show made me – a die-hard neutrals… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 10, 2013

Style Icon: Lily Pulitzer

By Jane

Lily Pulitzer was famous for creating brightly coloured print shift dresses, after she opened a juice stand in 1959 in Palm Beach and discovered she needed a dress that would camouflage the stains of orange and grapefruit stains. She had… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 4, 2013

Trend Alert: Costume jewellery

By Jane

Who’s old enough to remember the 80’s trend involving large jewelled brooches attached to the lapel of an oversize blazer with huge shoulder pads (think Melanie Griffith in Working Girl), or attached to the top button of a poly viscose… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 3, 2013

More wish list shopping: Everlane

By Amanda

I’m fascinated by the sudden (mini) surge in brand-launches that look like they are aimed at the quality-appreciating, well styled, grown-up-dressing female. I’m currently hankering after something from American brand Everlane, having been tipped off about it by New York… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 31, 2013

Style Icon: Ali

By Jane

It was great to see yesterday’s Guardian feature The 50 best dressed over 50’s. As Jess Cartner Morely pointed out, best dressed lists usually feature the youngest, thinnest and most beautiful people and are hardly a reflection of true style.… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 30, 2013

We love: Sali Hughes’s new beauty website

By Amanda

Oh joy! this is how we like our beauty advice- intelligent, real and stonkingly funny, at least as far as the Caitlin Moran interview, conducted while sat on the loo in her bathroom, is concerned (love her tights drying on… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 29, 2013

The Womens Room Fantasy Spring range

By Jane

With spring just around the corner (if we say it enough, it might actually happen), its time for the launch of the first two hits of the Women’s Room fantasy shop. We start with a neutral range featuring lots of… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 28, 2013

Wish List shopping: Pièce d’Anarchive

By Amanda

While we are talking about fabulous fabrics, as we were last week, I must mention my addiction to broderie anglais and guipure lace. Both turn up at vintage fairs regularly; broderie anglais in sweet blouses with leg-of-mutton sleeves or as… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 27, 2013

Best boyfriend jeans

By Jane

Shopping for jeans has never been one of my favourite things – all that weird sizing, hot changing rooms and uninterested shop assistants. But as I’ve got older it’s become positively painful. I’m not one for fashionable cuts or the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 23, 2013

More Jenna love: Shiny Ponies

By Jane

“I think inspiration comes from everywhere. It can be an old movie you saw, it can be something you feel like you’re missing in your closet. Sometimes that design inspiration is a little bit like a river, picking up things… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 20, 2013

Losing my heart to a fabulous fabric

By Amanda

If you want me to buy something, the quickest way to my heart is to make it in a fabulous fabric. I am a complete sucker for a bit of sumptuous velvet draping seductively over my limbs, or the comforting… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 18, 2013

Style Icon: Sairey Stemp from Cosmopolitan magazine

By Amanda

This is the always immaculately dressed Sairey Stemp, stylish fashion editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and someone I have been known to stalk at press days just to get a closer look at what she’s wearing. We were properly introduced recently… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 17, 2013

Yet another reason why I love Lena Dunham

By Jane

It was only a matter of time before Lena Dunham made a fashion film and it makes sense that she would work with designer Rachel Antonoff , as she is dating the designer’s brother.. Shot in a Wes Anderson-esque style,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 16, 2013

Style Icon: Nichollette Yardley-Moore

By Amanda

After yesterday’s post on embracing the beauty in ageing, it seems an appropriate moment to mention the fabulous Nichollette Yardley Moore. I have the BIGGEST case of hair envy over the curly white-grey locks of Nichollette, Liberty department store’s accessory… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessMarch 15, 2013

Real beauty isn’t re-touched and ageing isn’t SO bad

By Jane

In the trends world we have been talking a lot recently about real beauty and the notion of celebrating imperfection. The idea of what is beautiful in cosmetic terms has been re-defined dramatically over the last twenty years and in… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 14, 2013

Ada Rose and Betty & Walter, from Lisa Levis

By Amanda

You may remember we wrote about Lisa Levis’s sweet beauty range Betty & Walter for Boots back here, when we were pleased to see her back on her feet after a bruising business-time (she lost the use of her own… Read More