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Fashion & BeautyJanuary 27, 2012

Anthem in Shoreditch: a new store for Middleagedad

By Amanda

Alarmingly, on my last trip to our beloved East London, I realised middleagedad now has a better selection of clothes shops to visit than us girls do. Menswear independents such as Hostem, Present, Albam and Anthem are popping up everywhere… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 26, 2012

It’s all about the geo!

By Jane

While we are no where near ready to start buying our Spring Summer wardrobes yet, we are starting to think about what looks we might be going for. If pastels are not dinging your dong and you are not afraid… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 25, 2012

Tempting discount offers at Blitz Vintage and something for the weekend

By Amanda

Do you remember we reported on the great new vintage department store Blitz last autumn? Well the store is looking really lovely for spring, with lots of great ideas for working vintage buys into your wardrobe for the new season.… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 21, 2012

Lloyd Johnson: The Modern Outfitter at Chelsea Space

By Amanda

Over in the Chelsea College of Art’s Chelse Space for the next five weeks is an exhibition of designs from menswear retail legend Lloyd Johnson, co founder of Johnson’s The Modern Outfitters. It’s hard to pick the most influential bit… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 19, 2012

Chic ladies at Hammersmith Vintage Fair January 2012

By Amanda

At the first Hammersmith Vintage sale for 2012, there was an abundance of ladies looking very chic, despite the cold and we snapped and chatted to a few of them (yes, we’re getting a bit braver with our street style… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 18, 2012

Handwritten by Tanya Sarne

By Amanda

Last week we were very privileged to sit in on the autumn buy for zelfa.net, a new ecommerce site aimed at chic ladies of 35plus (more about this on a later post). We were at Handwritten by Tanya Sarne, which… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 17, 2012

The grown up guide to wearing pastels

By Jane

If you have been shopping over the last couple of weeks you will have noticed that pastels are ‘on trend’ for spring summer 2012 . The fashion dictators/forecasters (oops that might have been me!) have decreed that ice cream shades… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 11, 2012

Bright and cheerful sale buys to work into your spring wardrobe

By Amanda

Didn’t you just love the beautiful prints and cheerful colours on Jane’s Mary Katrantzou post? I have vowed to wear more beautiful colours this year, certainly during the dull months of Jan and Feb, so scanning the sale from the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 6, 2012

Something lovely for a winters day: Mary Katrantzou Spring Summer collection

By Jane

Summer seems like such a long way away and the thought of wearing summer clothes a distant dream. Mary Katrantzou is a young designer who has taken the fashion world by storm over the last couple of seasons. Her stunning… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 1, 2012

Carry-overs and dogs: my favourite pieces of clothing from 2011

By Amanda

Happy New Year to you all! We had a lovely break, hope you did too. When I worked as a merchandiser I would spend the week between Christmas and New Year studying the story behind the ‘dogs’ (bad sellers) and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 19, 2011

Iris Apfel for MAC

By Jane

You are never to old to wear red lipstick and our favourite 90 year old style icon, Iris Apfel, proves just, that with her latest collaboration with beauty brand MAC. She has created a 20 piece collection, which perfectly sums… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 18, 2011

The Scent Selector: a new perfume app from Roja Dove

By Amanda

Attention perfume nerds, this one is for you. The perfume guru Roja Dove has come out with a clever app to help you when you get to the Duty Free beauty hall, get overwhelmed and everything you’ve ever read about… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 15, 2011

Christmas sweaters: it’s a trend!

By Jane

A couple of weeks ago I noticed not one, but two rails of rather worrying tops in my local Beyond Retro. The tasteless bright red and green jumpers and sweats were decorated with tacky festive graphics, Christmas themed applique and… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutDecember 11, 2011

The grown up guide to Dalston

By Jane

E8 isn’t a London postcode usually associated with exciting retail, but ever since the Guardian declared Dalston to be the coolest place in Britain, there has been a growing number of uber fashionable shops and venues popping up. You have… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 8, 2011

Designer Red Cross for Christmas bargains

By Amanda

We got such a nice response off you all for the post we did on the Red Cross Vintage store that we thought we’d mention the charity also runs an equally impressive designer shop just off London’s King’s Road. We… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 7, 2011

Kate Bush: 50 Words for Snow

By Jane

Kate Bush wrote The Kick Inside when she was just 19 years old and I was 17. I thought she had written it just for me and listened to it pretty much every day throughout my late teens. Along with… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 3, 2011

Marni and H & M

By Jane

We are beside oursleves with excitement as H&M have announced that Marni will be their next designer collaboration. We love the look of the styling and I have to have that spotty pencil skirt in my life. Is it too… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 1, 2011

Bloggy Twitter: Ab Fab is back!

By Jane

This looks like it may be a little to close to the truth for comfort, but we are excited about it anyway! All of the original cast of Ab Fab will appear in three special episodes written by Jennifer Saunders,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 30, 2011

Precious and Lucza pop up in Spitalfields

By Amanda

As I write this, Radio 4’s You and Yours is saying that smaller shops and independents retail figures improved slightly compared to larger stores this last quarter, it appears we are definitely buying locally from stores that really appreciate our… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 29, 2011

Fashimals

By Jane

Todays post is a quiz, see if you can guess who these fashion peeps/animals are? Scroll to the bottom for the answer and check out this hilarious Tumblr, Fashimals. The answers are of course : Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, Valentino,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 26, 2011

TWR inspiration shots: Hammersmith Vintage Fair

By Amanda

Hammersmith Vintage Fair, which happens approximately once a month, is not just great for vintage clothes, it’s also a place to watch women dress creatively in both vintage and contemporary dress. If you get there early, as I normally do,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 17, 2011

The perfect red lipstick: Lipstick Queen

By Jane

As a serial red lipstick wearer, I am always on the look out for the perfect shade of red. It’s almost impossible to find the right colour and the right exture and it’s very rare to find one that is… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 16, 2011

On the subject of pencil skirts….

By Amanda

Next season it’s all about the pencil skirt, they are everywhere. here’s our favourite two so far from the spring 2012 press days. Above is the sweetest one from Boden in a lovely tangerine slubby linen with this raised ribbon… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 16, 2011

We love Whistles handbags

By Amanda

Last week it was about spring, due to the press days and the general vibe is that clothes are really going ‘modern grown up’, with neat tailoring and gorgeous dresses, so good news for us. So far my favourite press… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 14, 2011

Frieze extras

By Amanda

We had some nice comments left on the Frieze 2011 posts saying that you really liked to see our ‘street shots’ of what real people are wearing, so I went back through our Frieze photos and sorted out a few… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 13, 2011

Style Icon: Jetsun Pema

By Jane

Last month King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk of Bhutan married 21 year old student Jetsun Pema, in a lavish ceremony in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. The wedding was a huge event in the tiny, remote kingdom, as the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 11, 2011

See this: Ultrasuede – In Search of Halston

By Jane

This week we enjoyed an evening out courtesy of Handpicked Media and One Aldwych. If only every trip to the cinema involved drinking cocktails, eating delicious canapes and sitting in giant comfy seats! If you are a lover of 70’s… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 6, 2011

British Heritage Collection from Fat Face

By Amanda

We’d been hearing good things about Fat Face’s brand revamp from friends in the industry and when I visited Westfield Stratford City, I liked the look of the new store concept, which featured less of that funny little skull logo… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 3, 2011

TWR streetstyle: Hilary and Claire

By Jane

Yesterday I spent the day talking about colours for Autumn Winter 2013 /14 with the British Textile and Colour Group. We meet twice a year to share ideas and inspiration and to put together the British Colour Council seasonal palette.… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 2, 2011

Perfume review: CB I Hate Perfume

By Amanda

This doesn’t look the most inspiring of shop fronts, does it? When you also add on the fact that it’s tucked away in a slightly mean looking street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, you probably would walk away, smarti-sh, rather than go… Read More