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Welcome to 2015, hopefully filled with more stylish and clever older women

Ooh it’s tough getting back to work after a long break, isn’t it? We do hope your festive holiday was fun, we enjoyed ‘unplugging’ from all things digital (although we were still pottering about on twitter and Instagram) and return… Read More Read More

Helen Mirren for L’Oreal

Ok I’m going to come right out and say it. I have a problem with Helen Mirren modelling for L’Oreal. Not because I don’t think it’s a great idea for the beauty brand to use an older model and not… Read More Read More

Alternative party dressing for those who don’t really do Party-Ready

I know we are all supposed to be excited at the idea of the party season being upon us and you all know I’ll use any excuse to enthusiastically mix a good cocktail, but I absolutely loathe the idea of… Read More Read More

GrownUpCore: The impact older women have had on fashion

We’ve gone a bit back-to-school-homework-topics with our approach to fashion discussion this week on TWR. Jane’s show-and-tell post yesterday questioned the relevance of designers who still produce clothes better suited to an over-sexed Barbie than today’s modern female. Today I’m… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room’s best dinner party gifts

I’ve been meaning to write a post on dinner party gifts for ages, but because I don’t go/give that many (middleagedad has an ‘aversion’ you may remember…) I keep forgetting the level of sweat-inducing panic you can get into trying… Read More Read More

Flattering necklines for grown up women

While women of the world recoil in disgust, again, at some sleezey bloke posting hacked images of female celebrities without their clothes (we’re hoping there’s a special, nasty room in hell where people like this are headed too) we’re looking … Read More Read More

A Taste For Scent, with The Women’s Room and Odette Toilette

We are on holiday this week, but while we are away…..Exciting news! We are proud to announce we are having our first TWR fragrance event, in conjunction with the fabulous fragrance expert Odette Toilette and the beauty brand Aesop. A… Read More Read More

The Cocktail Gardener talks plant powered cocktails with The Women’s Room

Cocktails mixed with flowers and gardening? Does that sound like the perfect combination in our quest to learn how to mix an interesting cocktail? The delightfully grown up Lottie Muir is the Cocktail Gardener and we caught five minutes of… Read More Read More

Mixing Easter cocktails with The Women’s Room

Forget chocolate, people, this Easter, we’re going to tell you how to make a couple of delicious gin based cocktails that will make the weekend go with a delightful sense of stylish merriment. Our recipes also give you an excuse… Read More Read More

Are older women invisible in the workplace?

Over the last few years, my friends and I have noticed a change in the way we are viewed in the workplace. We mostly all work in fashion, design or the media and many of us never imagined we would… Read More Read More

Where Are The Women? Tate and Le Meridien get the conversation started

A while ago you may remember we wrote about Art Under Attack at Tate Britain and how we’d discovered a terrific mini exhibition about Suffragette art curated by artists and academics Olivia Plender and Hestor Reeve. How fabulous then, to… Read More Read More

Grenson and The Womens Room Pop Up Shop

We are really excited to putting together our very first pop up shop in collaboration with the lovely people from our favourite footwear brand Grenson. The three 3 day event will run from the 12th until the 14th Dec at… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room Salon, Women Of Substance – our readers!

Possibly the absolute best happening from our Women Of Substance Salon was meeting our readers, all of whom felt like immediate friends. With me bullying relentlessly a little gentle persuasion, we managed to photograph a few readers for posterity and… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room Salon: Women of Substance

Take one fabulous location with an amazing view of the best city in the world, delicious cocktails and mini meringues, four inspiring speakers and 80 of our readers and friends and what do you have? Women of Substance, of course… Read More Read More

TM Lewin women’s shirts

When we were buying middleson’s first suit, we ended up buying his shirts from TM Lewin, as the brand did a great quality shirt in a 4 for £100 offer  and all have lasted very well. By coincidence, the brand… Read More Read More

Advice on how to be a funny woman, from Funny Women’s Lynne Parker

I met Lynne Parker, founder of Funny Women last week at the Arianna Huffington Third Metric evening (more on this in a later post) and we got on splendidly. I have at least one girlfriend who would have made a… Read More Read More

Libertine magazine for ‘Interested Women’

While there are lots of great, lifestyle, culture and food magazines around at the moment, we were despairing of the women’s magazine market – there simply wasn’t a monthly read which made us think and captured our imagination – until… Read More Read More

The Women’s Business Council’s report and older women in the workplace: signs of hope?

It’s been another interesting week for older women’s issues, and indeed issues that affect all women (how come John Inverdale is still in his job?). On Monday we were invited by Women In Journalism to listen to James Harding, ex… Read More Read More

Womenomics: and why brands need to listen to us

Last week we were asked to join a group of inspiring women to talk at the LSN Global network evening. LSN is part of the Future Laboratory, a trend forecasting, brand strategy and consumer insight company, who work with brands… Read More Read More

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

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 Read More

The Women’s Room Meets: Alys Fowler

We were thrilled to be asked to the Gudrun Sjoden’s International Women’s Day celebration at the Covent Garden store on Friday, and to meet my favourite gardening columnist Alys Fowler, who writes for the Guardian’s weekend magazine, along with other… Read More Read More

Women of the World Festival: The Women’s Room work-in-progress list

To celebrate the Southbank’s WOW -Women Of The World Festival 2013, happening all weekend at the Southbank and of course International Women’s Day, I have put together a list of women we’ve come across who have inspired Jane and I… Read More Read More

Our favourite women of 2012

Looking back on the stories that have made the headlines in 2012 its easy to feel a sense of despair when it comes to women’s rights. Whether it’s abortion, rape, or the sexism that appears to dominate our culture and… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room explains how to avoid Christmas stress: knit! (or sew)

Over the past month I have been to a number of craft fairs and at all of them I was reminded of how so many of us love to make things. We may be as busy as heck but we… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room V The Women’s Room.org.uk

So after two long weeks of frustration, confusion and sleepless night, Jane and I are unable to do anything about the fact that another site and twitter name has been set up as The Women’s Room. We asked politely by… Read More Read More

Sign up for our newsletter! The Women’s Room

    Can I start with a heartfelt  ‘thank you’ to all our brilliant readers who have left such supportive comments on yesterday’s post about our current predicament. It’s is heartening to have such intelligent comment, we are very cheered… Read More Read More

The importance of research: who owns the Women’s Room?

The Internet is a truly fabulous thing which has opened a world of possibilities, conversations and online opportunities for everyone, from big brands, the lone voice shouting about a cause, or someone hand making candles in their kitchen. Democratising and… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room: elsewhere on other blogs

While we were away on our holidays we popped up as guest bloggers/interviewees on M&S Stories and Running In Heels, so just incase you missed them, we’re putting in links to them here. Yes, you did read that right, after… Read More Read More

The Womens Room fantasy shop: High summer occasion wear capsule collection

We are getting really quite carried away with the whole fantasy shop idea. Not only do we have the perfect shop fit and visual merchandising, we also have pattern cutters and knitwear designers and our favourite stylist (remember those fab… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room fantasy store design

So, as well as designing the clothes for our fantasy TWR range, we thought it would be good to show you what the fantasy store might look like too, after all we have had many moans about who’s doing it… Read More Read More