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Fashion & BeautyNovember 9, 2010

Reader testers needed: Méthode Jeanne Piaubert

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Last week it was books and TVs we were giving away, this week its beauty serums, we're working hard for you here on TWR….. We have been kindly offered three bottles of Méthode Jeanne Piaubert's Radical Firmness Serum to test… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 7, 2010

We love: Mimi

By The Womens Room

Neither Jane nor I are blingy bag fans, we both favour the understated loveliness of Ally Capellino and Jas MB. I am a huge fan of satchels, with those pockety compartments and that sturdy structure, not to mention the essential… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 5, 2010

Christmas present list: Rob Ryan and NV London Calcutta

By The Womens Room

Our favourite illustrator Rob Ryan has collaborated with NV London Calcutta to produce this beautiful silk scarf, which we would like to add to our Christmas list. We'd never heard of NV London Calcutta before, but it seems a fabulously… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 1, 2010

We love: getting the right size bra

By The Womens Room

Truelove in Barnes, which supports Breast Cancer month throughout October every year with Pink Friday One area of the body that sags inevitably with age, no matter how much anti ageing cream you apply, is your bust line. Skin tissue… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 31, 2010

Style icon: Franca Sozzani

By The Womens Room

Editor of Italian Vogue since 1988, Franco Sozzani is believe it or not, 60 years old. Ok she works in fashion, so she should know how to dress. But doesn't she look amazing, she even manages to pull off wearing… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 29, 2010

More fashion art: Rene Gruau

By The Womens Room

And there are more drawing treats at the Fashion Illustration Gallery, where the work of Rene Gruau is on display. Gruau illustrated many an International Textiles magazine cover and worked closely with his mate Cristian Dior to bring his designs… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutOctober 29, 2010

See this: Drawing Fashion

By The Womens Room

Drawing Fashion at the Design Museum showcases some of the most influential fashion illustrators from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Featuring show reels, film clips, music and photography as well as original illustrations, from the collections of Chanel, Dior, Comme… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 28, 2010

Shopping with experts: Wallis’s 1923 coat collection

By The Womens Room

70s Cape, everyone’s favourite at £90 Do you remember we were talking about Wallis being a place EVERYONE used to go to for their coats? Back in the days when clothes shops were scarce and Chelsea Girl ruled the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 20, 2010

Shopping with experts: Hat Gallery MV

By The Womens Room

A while ago, TWR reader Pat from Wales asked us to look into interesting hats to wear for every day as things got colder. For a while we were a bit stumped. You can pick up smart event hats quite… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 18, 2010

Frieze 2010 fashion part two: accessories

By The Womens Room

Amanda’s favourite shoes spotted at Frieze Art Fair Continuing our fashion trend spotting at Frieze this year, here’s what was happening with accessories… Decorative tights. Patterned, brightly coloured, striped and lace details all livened up legs at Frieze. It was… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 16, 2010

Frieze 2010 fashion part one: clothes

By The Womens Room

At Frieze Art Fair this week we couldn’t help but be impressed with the well groomed ladies that were admiring and buying the art. There was lots of style and a strong trend for very expensive boots and bags….not to… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 15, 2010

+J at Uniqlo: A reader writes….

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Cashmere blend jacket from Unilqo's +J range £129.99 Yesterday neither Jane or I could get out to see the new +J range due to having to actually do some work for the day jobs. However we were lucky… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 12, 2010

More from the Sartorialist….

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Another stunning picture from The Sartorialist……but of great interest to me this lunchtime, as I sat skimming through the 140plus comments on this picture, was how all the bright young things seem surprised and pleased that someone 'so old' still… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 12, 2010

Gold hooped earrings and sheep at Wool Week

By The Womens Room

I have long wanted a pair of classic gold hooped earrings. I used to have a sweet pair that were my first ever earrings, the ones I had when my ears were first pierced, but they have long been lost.… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutOctober 9, 2010

See this: Ballet Russes

By The Womens Room

The Ballets Russes performed under Sergei Diaghliev between 1909 and 1929, using avant-garde composers, such as Stravinsky and designers such as Bakst, Goncharova, Picasso and Matisse and made a major contribution to the Modernist movement. Diaghilev and the Golden Age… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutOctober 7, 2010

We love: the Mad Men effect

By The Womens Room

Mad Men has to be our all time favourite TV programme. It is the perfect combination of subtlety, glamour and nostalgia. We cant quite believe we were actually alive then, albeit small children, but we do vaguely remember our mums… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 6, 2010

Le Labo’s perfumed note pad, and a home made version

By The Womens Room

Being something of a perfume and stationery geek, when I heard the French perfume company Le Labo (which makes one of my favourite rose perfumes, Rose 31) made a note book impregnated with scent, I just had to find out… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 5, 2010

Shopping with experts: WR reader Zoe

By The Womens Room

We really do have the loveliest readers. Last week, on a particularly grey and rainy day, when we were feeling a bit down in the dumps and Autumnal, we got an email from Zoe, a reader from Northampton who had… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessOctober 4, 2010

What makes you think ‘I’m too old’ when you buy clothes?

By The Womens Room

Pic from thedailymail.co.uk This week TWR had an emergency text from one of our favourite independent stores, Nom de Plume in East Sheen. "Help!" texted Pippa, 'what should I say to the MANY women who try something on, LOVE it,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 3, 2010

Milan Fashion Week: our absolute favourite

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Images from Style.com For us there was really only one collection that we absoloutley loved at Milan Fashion week and that was Jil Sander. Designed by Raf Simons, the super bright colours in cleverly cut, yet understated shapes, summed up… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 2, 2010

Style Icon: Mrs Prada

By The Womens Room

Picture from The Sartorialist Looking at Miuccia Prada's end of show bow on The Sartorialist yesterday, I thought her skirt looked the absolute perfect length. The issue of length has been troubling me a lot recently. To show a knobbly… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 30, 2010

Sonia Juttla helps out: part two- bronzers, lipstick and kohl

By The Womens Room

Where were we on the lovely Sonia? Oh, yes, here. When Sonia mentioned bronzers, I almost told her not to bother, it's another one of those products that just wasn't around when I learnt how to do my make-up routine aeons… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 29, 2010

Style icon: Chantal Biya

By The Womens Room

Ok, we may be being a little ironic here when we call the first lady of Cameroon Chantal Biya a style icon, as she isn't really stylish in the conventional sense. But there is something truly fabulous about her, in… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 28, 2010

Skin care & beauty tips: Sonia Juttla helps us out

By The Womens Room

We recently found ourselves in the back of a taxi (a Green Tomato Cars taxi, as this was after the Timberland event) with the style and beauty writer Sonia Juttla. Sonia is a complete beauty geek and has been obsessing about… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 27, 2010

LFW: our favourites

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Jonathan Saunders (all images from Style.com) What with all our favourite fashion journalists Tweeting directly from the Spring/Summer shows and lots of brands live streaming their collections, we almost felt like we were at London Fashion week. If you like… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 26, 2010

Pearl Lowe at Peacocks: more 40plus designing

By The Womens Room

Ok, so Pearl Lowe might not be your idea of a style icon for the over 40s (perhaps a bit too old rock chick hanging on to an moment in time that has gone, Pearl?) but all credit to her… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 26, 2010

For us forgotten women: 40+ at Debenhams

By The Womens Room

Debenhams has launched a campaign to help us 'forgotten women' (its words, not ours) ie those of us over 40, dress better. The department store is to feature models aged 40, 50 and 60 years old in its autumn campaign,… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 25, 2010

Autumn/Winter wish list: from Toast

By The Womens Room

As you know we love Toast here at TWR and this season is no exception. We tend to go for the simpler less complicated styles with subtle details. The combination of high quality fabrics and non fashion – fashion means… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 22, 2010

We love: Mint Velvet

By The Womens Room

Last week we were invited to meet the crew at Mint Velvet, a small design brand that’s just one year old, selling really nice clothes you can wear without having to think too hard. When we got there, it turned… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 19, 2010

NYFW: our favourites

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Proenza Schouler (all images from Style.com) Last week saw fashions great and good make their way to New York, to view what we will be wearing in Spring/Summer 2011. Actually, we will probably be wearing slightly inferior High St versions… Read More