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Fashion & Beauty, We Are ReadingSeptember 15, 2010

Blow by Blow by Detmar Blow

By The Womens Room

Isabella Blow was a true English eccentric and a legendary figure in the fashion industry. As fashion editor on US Vogue, Uk Tatler and The Sunday Times, she championed young designers such as Philip Treacy and Alexander McQueen, and was… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 14, 2010

We love: Tom Ford’s glam older models

By The Womens Room

Pic of Tom and Daphne Guinness by Cathy Horyn of the New York Times, read what she thought of Tom's collection on her blog On The Runway Oh let's hear it for Tom Ford, marketeer extraordinaire, who managed to steal… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 14, 2010

We love: vintage ladies at Hammersmith fair

By The Womens Room

This Sunday we shunned the beautiful sunshine and spent nearly the entire day tucked away inside Hammersmith Town Hall, rummaging through racks of vintage clothes at the London Vintage Fair. organised by P&A Fairs. It's a great event, I love… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 13, 2010

The invisible designers

By The Womens Room

Yesterday saw Victoria Beckham unveil her fifth collection at New York fashion week and very nice it was too. Cleverly cut, body hugging dresses in lovely fabrics. I was skeptical about her range until I saw it in real life,… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 12, 2010

Cycling with Timberland

By The Womens Room

More bikes! But this time organised by the nice people at Timberland, who got REALLY lucky with the weather last week when they organised a glorious cycle trip down the Regent's Canal in London without it raining. It must have… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 10, 2010

Style icon: Jane Birkin

By The Womens Room

Common law has it that it's best not to meet your heros as they are sure to let you down, well not Miss Jane Birkin, who is one of our TOP style icons and who was utterly fabulous when we… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 8, 2010

We love : buying Zara online

By The Womens Room

So, at last, we get Zara on line. This is exciting news for anyone stuck in remote outposts with no access to smart shops (hello Lindsey….) as Zara really is a terrific place to buy well made fashionable pieces that… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 6, 2010

The older ladies of perfume: 40+ fragrances

By The Womens Room

Last post on perfume for a while, promise. While we had the hugely knowledgable Roja Dove cornered (poor lamb) at the Harrods gig, we asked him what his favourite 40+ perfumes were. And here they are…. Quelque Fleurs. Houbigant (origin 1912, making… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 6, 2010

More perfume stuff: Roja Dove talks to TWR

By The Womens Room

SO, back to perfume. Roja Dove (this is actually pronounced Roger….since this is what MAD is called he’s thinking of changing his spelling) is an encyclopedia of information on perfume, there’s not much he doesn’t know about smell. he… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 4, 2010

Something for the weekend: The Perfume Diaries at Harrods

By The Womens Room

We are going to slightly OD on perfume in the next couple of posts…..mostly because we've just been walked through The Perfume Diaries exhibition at Harrods with the curator, Roja Dove. If you are a keen perfume fan as I… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 3, 2010

Autumn/Winter wish list: Camel and brown shoes

By The Womens Room

Unless you have spent the summer in outer Mongolia, I am sure you are aware that camel is 'the colour' of the Autumn/Winter season. Of course we realise to some people this will have almost no impact on their lives… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 2, 2010

Something nice to watch with an afternoon cup of tea: Anthony Price and Flake

By The Womens Room

We are indebted to the lovely Judith Watt, eagle eyed TWR reader for sending us this to look at. An Anthony Price dress floating about in space looking a Cadbury's flake. Judith was at the shoot for this ad, and… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 2, 2010

We love: More 40+ women in September issues

By The Womens Room

Thrilling to see so many 40+ women in the September issues of fashion magazines this autumn. In the US, the big September issues of Vogue (Halle Berry) Elle (Julia Roberts) and Harpers Bazaar (Jennifer Anniston) are using women who are… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 31, 2010

Read this: Garb Fest by Lynn Yaeger

By The Womens Room

We are indebted to queen blogger disneyrollergirl for finding this Garb Fest article by Lynn Yaeger in the New York Times T2 blog . (and what a nice blog it is too……yet another one for the list.) It's a total gem… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutAugust 27, 2010

Shopping with experts: Covent Garden new stores

By The Womens Room

While we were away, a couple of interesting stores opened in Covent Garden. I've not been a big fan of the market area recently, mostly because it's full of tourists (many stores now indicate prices with the VAT tax deducted,… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Middle Aged MumAugust 26, 2010

Middleagedmum.com: takes it to the maxi

By The Womens Room

I leave the house feeling 40% Margot Leadbetter, 50% Hattie Jacques and 10% Jo Wiley about to go to a festival. I am wearing a long black maxi dress, Clarks Jesus sandals and a cropped cardigan to cover my… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Things We LoveAugust 22, 2010

Pore Professional

By The Womens Room

I am not one for miracle products and I almost never spend ages browsing make up products. But on our recent trip to NYC, I was shopping with a cosmetics obsessed teen and spent far too long in the make-up… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 21, 2010

Shopping with experts: Tom Davies glasses

By The Womens Room

I wear contact lenses mostly, needing glasses only to get from the bathroom to bed and back each morning and evening when I take my lenses out. Consequently it is not unusual for me to keep a pair of glasses… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 20, 2010

We love: Orla Kiely perfume

By The Womens Room

As our holidays are over, we have started thinking about Christmas. Only joking, of course we haven’t, but if were that way inclined we would almost certainly be putting the new Orla Kiely fragrance range on our wish list. We… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 13, 2010

We love: Toast Travels

By The Womens Room

Now we're back from holiday and seriously thinking about winter clothes, it's good to see Toast's early autumn collection is online for us to pick over. Nice things have happened to the Toast website, you can now look at the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 9, 2010

TWR beauty: Miller Harris- good enough for the White House

By The Womens Room

Just before our holiday, I went to the Miller Harris press launch of its Christmas gift ideas and while we have been away the brand has hit the headlines because Samantha Cameron gave the Obamas a few of the scented… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutAugust 7, 2010

Just a few more pictures of bicycles….

By The Womens Room

Oh my, the Italians love their bikes. Not only are the men mad on cycling up into the mountains Tour de France style (complete with v tight bright lycra kit) on state of the art machines every weekend, but the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 5, 2010

Sun dressing, Italian style

By The Womens Room

I've seen some great examples of stylish dressing-for-extreme-heat while here in Italy, many of which successfully challenge the rules on length/sleeveless/cleavage and bling often associated with older women. This very glamourous woman above looked stunning in her mini and cropped… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 3, 2010

Style icon: Caroline of Monaco… plus DIVAS in Lucca

By The Womens Room

Amanda is still in Lucca, where I went to the brilliant DIVAS photographic exhibition by the (apparently VERY famous) King of Paparazzi (his words not mine) Rino Barillari. He took many of the now familiar 'pap' shots of Sophia Loren,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 2, 2010

Biker chic in Woodstock

By The Womens Room

Cycling in the US hasn't quite taken off in the same way as it has in Europe and I didn't spot many glamorous older women riding round the streets of Manhattan. While out and about in the Catskills however I… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 1, 2010

Holiday product tests: La Clarée

By The Womens Room

We’ve only just begun to test beauty products here at TWR so we are not experts, but we do come at it from an ‘only comment if we’ve used it’ angle which means we’re not just reading the press releases.… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 31, 2010

Call us shallow but: We SO want one of these

By The Womens Room

Call me glamorous, but I have been seen carrying my lap top round in a Wholefoods canvas bag. I know it's not a good look but I have never been able to find the perfect lap top bag. They are… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 30, 2010

Chic cycling in Lucca, Italy

By The Womens Room

Everyone cycles in the walled city of Lucca, in Tuscany, young and old go about about their daily business on two wheels rather than four. Italian women are so chic, even when bombing around on bikes, I've been trying to… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 15, 2010

We love: Acne

By The Womens Room

What is about the Swedish that is just so cool? They seem to exude effortless style in all things, from furniture to fashion. We have long been fans of the quietly quirky Swedish fashion brand Acne (it stands for 'ambition… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 14, 2010

Shopping with expert: Wallis for sun dresses

By The Womens Room

We went to see Wallis close up last week. Wallis is the Arcadia Group's brand aimed sorta loosely at us, ie women (rather than teenagers) and older than 25. Obviously, they don't use big numbers at Arcadia (heaven forbid they… Read More