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Fashion & BeautyMay 13, 2011

Style crush: Abbey

By The Womens Room

Yesterday we spent a really inspiring day with the Stylus content team talking about future trends. Stylus is an subscription only trends and information website for the interiors, design and lifestyle industries and we were asked to present our views… Read More

Out & AboutMay 12, 2011

Something for the weekend: Artists Open House, Brighton

By The Womens Room

It's the 30th Year of the Brighton and Hove Artist Open Houses project this year, and last weekend we popped down to see some of the 250 houses and galleries on the first of four weekend openings in May. You… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 11, 2011

Chanel Cruise: it’s all about lemon and lilac

By The Womens Room

Images from the Chanel website As we mentioned yesterday, Karl Lagerfeld launched his cruise collection and new film at the Hôtel du Cap in Antibes last night. There is also a pop up Chanel shop along the coast in Cannes, cleverly… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyMay 10, 2011

Tea break treat: Tale of a Fairy

By The Womens Room

Today Karl Lagerfled will show the Spring Summer Chanel cruise collection at the at Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, which recently underwent a massive 45 million Euro renovation. We can only imagine how glamorous it will be! Karl (like we… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 10, 2011

And here’s a great retailer: Wait and See

By The Womens Room

Yesterday's post on being a great brand also extends to retailers, in particular the bit about knowing your customer and what she might want. Last week in Milan I visited Wait & See, a brilliant new independent retail store (it… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 9, 2011

How to be a great brand

By The Womens Room

All images are Boden My fashion friends and have I have been deliberating a lot recently about what we think is required to make a brand stand out. We have all worked in the fashion industry for many years, at… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingMay 8, 2011

Harper’s Bazaar Fashion by Lisa Armstrong

By Amanda

it’s Lisa Armstrong, so a cut above the rest of the ‘personal style’ development books. Nice gold cover too… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingMay 8, 2011

New Gypsies by Ian McKell

By Jane

Novels & Biogs, We Are ReadingMay 8, 2011

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

By Amanda

Home & GardenMay 8, 2011

We love: Heal’s Reveals blog

By The Womens Room

The nice people over at Heal’s have kindly put us on the blogroll of their new blog, called Heal’s Reveals. We are very grateful as we are amongst good company (it’s a ‘carefully edited list that will inspire Heal’s… Read More

Middle Aged MumMay 7, 2011

Middleagedmum.com: what did you just say?

By The Womens Room

You know what its like, you are having a perfectly normal conversation with someone you may only have met a couple of times. They may be a potential friend or someone you will have to come into contact with quite… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & Garden, Out & AboutMay 6, 2011

Charity watch: Kids of Kathmandu

By The Womens Room

This seems a very stylish way to raise money for a worth while cause (and a little more up-market than the tea cosies, although we loved those too). The Kids of Kathmandu charity has organised a bunch of smart designers… Read More

Art & CultureMay 5, 2011

The unwritten rules of blogging

By The Womens Room

Image by Banksy The great thing about blogging is the amazing people you get to meet both online and offline. The blogging community is about respect, sharing and being generous with content. Its the same with Twitter, its all about… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 4, 2011

Perfume review: Betrothal by Grossmith

By The Womens Room

If we’re not all too sick of wedding references, I’ve just been sent a sample of the new perfume from the hard working team at the British perfume house Grossmith, it’s called Betrothal. Much like Grossmith’s other three smells this… Read More

Home & GardenMay 3, 2011

We love: Mel Made This

By The Womens Room

Using traditional upholstery techniques and vintage fabrics, Mel takes unwanted furniture and lamps and turns them into unique objects of desire. She started collecting vintage fabrics when she was a textiles student and started Mel Made This, after moving to… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 2, 2011

We love: The Peace Collection by Christine Mayer

By The Womens Room

Anyone who read Selvedge this month will have seen the beautiful photos from Christine Mayer’s Peace collection. I looked at them and thought ‘hmm, lovely’ then forgot to do anything more. Then this weekend my discerning and very stylish friend… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessMay 1, 2011

We love: green bikes, pink shoes, cute dogs and cakes

By The Womens Room

Here's something rather lovely for what is hopefully another sunny bank holiday weekend. It feels like it might be time to dust off the cobwebs and get the bike out and we are loving this rather fabulous pea green… Read More

Home & GardenApril 30, 2011

Camera review: The Polaroid and The Bloggie

By The Womens Room

Do you think Kate and William have packed a good camera for their honeymoon? If they haven't yet, I can recommend the Polaroid camera I bought recently with my eBay stash. At £79 for the camera and about £9… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyApril 29, 2011

Royal Wedding: the highlights

By The Womens Room

The happy couple and the dress I started the day of ‘the wedding’ somewhat cynically, not helped by the dog walkers of N16 who all proclaimed they ‘would not be watching’. One woman was really miffed as her childrens gay… Read More

Art & CultureApril 29, 2011

We love: Weddings

By The Womens Room

Regent Street And will be glued to our televisions this morning. So check back later for our low down on who wore what, etc etc. In the mean time why not make up you royal wedding guest name!!Start with Lord… Read More

Novels & Biogs, We Are ReadingApril 28, 2011

Other people’s bookshelves

By The Womens Room

I am on holiday, staying in a house with very extensive bookshelves full of books that are very battered and faded due to the sea breezes and hot sun. Looking through other people’s bookshelves is always fun and occasionally enlightening,… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyApril 27, 2011

Style Icon: Poly Styrene

By The Womens Room

Inspired by an early Sex Pistols gig on Hastings pier, Poly Styrene formed X-Ray Spex when she was 18 and went on to make some of the most iconic singles of the punk generation. Warrior in Woolworths from the brilliant… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 26, 2011

Pantherella: socks to watch The Killing in

By The Womens Room

(Top sock in 'Nordic print' cashmere is £30, bottom sock in Fairisle Shetland is £20) While out at press days recently, I was much taken by the great line of socks produced by UK manufacturer Pantherella (who also make the… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenApril 25, 2011

Style Icon: Margaret Howell

By The Womens Room

We came across a feature in the NY Times on Margaret Howell and were reminded of how much we admire both her personal and interior style. She lives mostly in South East London and has a second home by the… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenApril 24, 2011

Britain’s best tea cosies: as seen at White Stuff

By The Womens Room

I’ve just read Jane’s post on Tea Shops and have to show you my newest hand knitted tea cosy. I bought this while at the recent visual merchandising show in London, where I met concept designer Jacquie Marsh’s team,… Read More

Out & AboutApril 23, 2011

Something for Easter weekend: Britains best tearooms

By The Womens Room

While Amanda is sunning herself somewhere tropically hot and impossibly glamorous, I am up North for the Easter weekend to visit friends and family. We are dividing our time between the Yorkshire moors and the coastal town of Whitby and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 22, 2011

We love: Fabio from Shan Rahimkhan Luxe hair collection

By The Womens Room

Is it our age that makes us susceptible to the theatrical attention of hairdressers? We wrote about it before here, but I think there’s a whole PHD to be written on the subject myself. And the more talanted the… Read More

Out & AboutApril 21, 2011

Bring out the bunting!

By The Womens Room

You cant fail to have noticed there is a whiff of patriotism in the air. We haven't quite made up our minds if we will be holding an anarchist type f..k the Royal Wedding type party or hanging out the… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenApril 20, 2011

Technology packing: How did Captain James T Kirk cope?

By The Womens Room

Found on lillygayleromance I LOVE packing for a holiday, as it allows me to put into practise the years of experience I've had moving from place to place. My dad was in the RAF, consequently my mum was always packing… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 19, 2011

A night in with the girls ……………and Nivea and ASOS

By The Womens Room

We are asked to take part in events and try new products out more and more often. We try to be discerning in what we choose to test, or participate in and more often than not end up saying no,… Read More