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Out & AboutMay 9, 2009

Festival Time: Latitude

By The Womens Room

Usually the idea of a weekend in a tent with our nearest and dearest, surrounded by thousands of other people and loud music,would fill us with utter horror. Our days of drug fueled bad dancing and staying up for days… Read More

Out & AboutFebruary 13, 2009

The retreat of the Vikings: girl power in Iceland

By The Womens Room

Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland's new women Prime Minister We have recently discovered a delightful new Icelandic range of womenswear called ELM, more of which in a couple of posts. Until discovering this lovely new collection we, as well as… Read More

Out & AboutFebruary 12, 2009

Something for the weekend: Kids Modern

By The Womens Room

If like us, you feel children should be brought up to appreciate good design, take them along to the Kids Modern show at Dulwich College this Sunday. The show brings together the best children's furniture, fashion and accessories from over 50 designers… Read More

Out & AboutFebruary 6, 2009

We Love: holidays in the UK

By The Womens Room

Photograph by Martin Parr Several years ago we predicted a return the old fashioned UK based holidays of our childhood (we didn’t write the Womens Room then, so you'll have to trust us on this one!) In fact we felt so… Read More

Out & AboutJanuary 25, 2009

Something to look forward to; i-escape

By The Womens Room

In the dreary months of January and February, we like nothing better to dream about where we might like to go on holiday this year. Despite the doom and gloom of the weather and the economy, we are determined to plan… Read More

Out & AboutJanuary 18, 2009

We love: WoWoWoW

By Amanda

Eleanor Roosevelt (left) It’s a big week for Americans. The promise of change and a new President in Barack Obama and the chance that we might also have a really interesting and stylish first lady in Michelle is cheery news… Read More

Out & AboutJanuary 16, 2009

We love: Older women leading the Brazil carnival

By Amanda

Luma de Oliveira Youth is almost a religion in Brazil, so it is truly a paradigm shift in attitude when the hotly contended position of carnival queen goes to not one but two women in their mid forties this… Read More

Out & AboutDecember 28, 2008

Growing old gracefully?

By The Womens Room

This photograph of Donatella Versace on holiday in todays Mail on Sunday, makes us realise why we will always remember to wear factor 30 and almost definately say no to cosmetic surgery. It makes us wonder what she thinks when… Read More

Out & AboutDecember 19, 2008

Shopping with experts: teenage hotspots in New York

By Amanda

Having visited some cracking New York stores last week, the Women’s Room thought it would be useful to list a couple of good-to-know-about ones, should any of our readers be visiting with grumpy teenagers in tow. The… Read More

Out & AboutDecember 16, 2008

Trend Watch: Rough Luxe

By The Womens Room

Are you fed up with the sterile perfection of designer hotels. Do you yearn for " A little bit of rough in a luxurious London, or a little bit of luxury in a rough part of London." Look no further… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 28, 2008

Something for the Weekend: National Buy Nothing Day

By The Womens Room

Today in America and tomorrow in the UK, it's National Buy Nothing Day, an annual protest against consumerism organised by a group called Adbusters. Put simply… 'Saturday November 29th 2008 is Buy Nothing Day, It's a day where you challenge… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 20, 2008

We Love: Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins

By The Womens Room

We have to say we are not usually big fans of Brangelina, personally we think all those children just look like really hard work. But we are loving her look in her new film, The Changeling, due for release in the UK… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 16, 2008

Guilty Pleasures: Perez Hilton

By The Womens Room

Ok, so we realise the Uk's obsession with with celebrity is unhealthy and in danger of turning our teenage daughters into WAGabees. But, admit it, sometimes we just have to know what's going on with Madonna and Guy or David… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 5, 2008

God Bless America

By The Womens Room

Congratulations! We love that Barack Obama called his wife Michelle 'his best friend' in his AMAZING victory speech. We also love the Sun headline 'McCain's had his chips'.… Read More

Health & Happiness, Novels & Biogs, Out & About, We Are ReadingOctober 20, 2008

We love: Persephone Books

By The Womens Room

This summer we discovered an amazing publishing house cum book shop in Londons Lambs Conduit Street. Persephone Books prints “mainly neglected fiction and non-fiction by women, for women and about women”. Nicola Beauman, who founded and still runs the company,… Read More