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Fashion & BeautyAugust 2, 2012

We love: illustrated and signed product

By Amanda

So this is an interesting mini trend, illustrating and signing beauty products to make them that little bit more special. I first noticed this earlier this year when customers queued up to get Jo Malone to sign the bottles of… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingAugust 2, 2012

The Perfume Lover by Denyse Beaulieu

By Amanda

Fessing up, I haven’t actually read this, but I met the charming Ms Beaulieu and heard a bit about the story featured in this book at the launch of (sort-of) her L’Artisan Parfumeur perfume Seville a L’Aube in the London… Read More

Out & AboutAugust 1, 2012

Port Elliot: our kind of festival

By Jane

These days brands are engaging with their consumers on many different levels. Clever retailers are extending the customer experience way beyond simply selling them stuff and creating events and collaborations which resonate with their brand aesthetic and consumer profile. Anthropologie… Read More

Middle Aged MumJuly 31, 2012

Middleagemum.com: changes to home services during the Olympics

By Amanda

Due to unexpected enthusiasm for watching The Olympics by the household management, usual home rules are being updated for the duration. It is hoped that normal services will be resumed after the Paralympics, but only if they don’t interfere with… Read More

Health & HappinessJuly 30, 2012

Colour Changes Everything

By Jane

Here’s something to brighten up the Monday morning blues (and worries about how long it’s g0ing to take you to get to work, if you live in London). Colour Changes Everything launched Targets new Spring collection earlier this year and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 29, 2012

Vintage love: Skinny Rich Fairies

By Amanda

We met Julia Craig at the Hammersmith Vintage Fair recently and were pretty wowed by her customised vintage clothing for her new range Skinny Rich Fairies, a collection Stevie Nicks might get excited about. Julia is a regular stall holder… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 28, 2012

London we love you

By Jane

Until a few weeks ago, I was a bit indifferent, some could say cynical about the Olympics. Having watched previously ignored Stratford and parts of Hackney transform from run down uninspiring urban wastelands to landscaped, architect designed perfection, certainly made… Read More

Things We LoveJuly 27, 2012

Clinique’s Chubby lip colour balm

By Amanda

I’m very slow to the party on this product, you probably all know about this little super-mosturising lip colour balm stick ( knowledgable beauty people rave about them) but just in case you don’t…. Clinique’s chubby range is lipstick perfection… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 27, 2012

We love: The knitted Olympics

By Amanda

We are full of excitement here at TWR about tonight’s opening ceremony and wish Team GB the very best as the Olympics kick off this evening. London’s retail store windows have been amazingly creative with their Olympic displays, but frankly… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 26, 2012

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

By Jane

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

Fashion, We Are ReadingJuly 25, 2012

The Ambassador Magazine by Breward & Wilcox

By Amanda

One for the fashion crew, particularly any one who is interested in the history of British magazine and textile publishing, this is what the V&A says about the book, “The Ambassador has been described as ‘probably the most daring and… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 25, 2012

The Women’s Room fantasy store design

By Amanda

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

Home & GardenJuly 24, 2012

The Gourmand: A magazine about food and culture

By Jane

While we love nothing more than the latest copy of the Sainsburys magazine (does that make us dull?) food magazines, like fashion magazines can get stuck in a rut when it comes to layout, features, photgraphy etc and it’s refreshing… Read More

Things We LoveJuly 23, 2012

Blackwing pencils at Pedlars

By Amanda

Just checking that all you stationery enthusiasts know that the iconic Blackwing 602 pencil is now back from the brink of disappearing and is available to buy from Pedlars? You will all know of course that the original 602 pencil… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 23, 2012

Street shot style: Forte dei Marmi

By Amanda

OK ladies, last of the Italian street style shots comes from possibly the most glamourous Italian beach resort ever, Forte dei Marmi, where everyone is gorgeous and quite rich (it’s a stonkingly expensive place to visit) so we’re in a… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 22, 2012

The Womens Room fantasy shop

By Jane

After all the fuss about M & S this week, how to cater for the older women fashion wise, seems to be front of everyone’s mind – and about time too! As we have said before (and no doubt will… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 21, 2012

Street style shots: Lucca Italy

By Amanda

Back on the streets of Lucca….today’s post looks at the way Italian women can rock an elegant sundress…..such as the two ladies above. I am tempted by those flat tan loafers on the right, there are lots of shops selling… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 20, 2012

The new faces of Lanvin: and they’re 62 and 82

By Jane

After hearing recently how Diana Vreeland left Vogue at 69, to become the driving force of the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute (more of this to come soon) I was inspired to look at the idea of working as one grows… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 19, 2012

Street style shots: Lucca, Italy

By Amanda

So, back in Lucca at the flea market. Both stall holders and visitors were a fantastic source of style inspiration, over the next couple of posts I’ll show you a few of my favourites. We’ve had a number of emails… Read More

Health & HappinessJuly 18, 2012

MiddleagedSingle.com: Not quite a champion

By Jane

These days it’s rare I’m given an opportunity to emulate one of the super-sleuthing, all-action heroines we used to run around pretending to be in the playground – I’m thinking Diana Rigg as Emma Peel or Alexandra Bastedo as Sharron… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 17, 2012

Style icons: Dame Vivienne Westwood and me at the Lucca flea market, sort of…

By Amanda

Nothing excites a fashion girl more than discovering that by coincidence or (ahem) good judgement you happen to be scouring the same flea market as one of your sartorial heros. Particularly if you’re in another country. So when Middleagedad nudged… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingJuly 16, 2012

My Cool Shed by Jane Field-Lewis

By Jane

Fashion & BeautyJuly 16, 2012

We love you M&S, but please stop chasing trends!

By Jane

So the world and his wife had a go at poor old M & S last week, as Kate Bostock is to leave, Belinda Earl takes over as part time Style Director and the Head of Food (?) who has… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 15, 2012

This month I have mostly been instagraming….

By Amanda

We hope you are following us on Instagram (we’re The Women’s Room) we’re loving it’s uplifting visual photo-flow of images, admittedly there’s a lot of pictures of dogs and cakes, but really that’s what makes us smile. You might like… Read More

Things We LoveJuly 14, 2012

Tatty Devine; eyelash sunglasses

By Jane

While buying new sunglasses may not be high on your list of priorities at the moment (in the words of Bananarama ‘It’s a cruel cruel summer’), you may well be planning a holiday somewhere hot. A slick of red lipstick… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 14, 2012

Trend alert: turbans

By Jane

If Karl Lagerfeld says it’s all about the turban, then you can be sure, whether you like it or not, at some point in the next six months you might find yourself thinking ‘can I can’t I’? Sir Karl actually… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 13, 2012

Betty & Walter at Boots, (move over Cath Kidston…..)

By Amanda

We have been getting sneak peaks at autumn beauty and gift ranges this week, since we’re over summer in retail (see Jane’s rant) and everyone’s thinking Christmas (although to be honest, the weather HAS helped get us in the… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 12, 2012

The Canine Games: the UK’s hippest dog show

By Jane

Last Saturday big A and I took a trip down to the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club to check out the Canine Games, a dog show which promised to be more like Lattitide than Crufts. Organised as a fund raising… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 11, 2012

Jo Malone and Thrive’s Old English Garden in Battersea Park

By Amanda

Jo Malone Limited and the gardening charity Thrive’s Old English Garden in Battersea Park is a newly refurbished, fragrant floral retreat waiting to be discovered. You must go if you are a garden fan. The fragrance company has funded the… Read More

Art & CultureJuly 10, 2012

Blogging moves onto the next level

By Jane

We wouldn’t call ourselves experts when it comes to blogging, but then again we are not exactly amateurs either. Almost three years of daily blogging has created a large and loyal group of readers and we consider ourselves fortunate to… Read More