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Fashion & Beauty, We Are ReadingMay 19, 2010

Palm Springs style by Vanessa Friedman

By The Womens Room

This photo thanks to Wayneford’s posterous Anyone in need of design inspiration for the 35plus market would do well to grab a copy of French photographer ç’s book Palm Springs 1960, out recently. The book is full of well-heeled ladies… Read More

Home & GardenMay 18, 2010

We love: Lubna Chowdhary

By The Womens Room

Womens Room reader Sarah, told us about Lubna Chowdhary, after she had been to her open studio in Dulwich last week. We immediately loved her beautiful hand crafted tiles, which combine traditional techniques with contemporary colour combinations and an amazing… Read More

Home & GardenMay 17, 2010

We love: museum and gallery shops

By The Womens Room

Call us shallow, but sometimes, the most exciting time in a trip to an art gallery or museum is the moment we get to the shop. Museum shops have gone through a major make-over in the last few years and some… Read More

Out & AboutMay 16, 2010

Style Icon: Sue Sylvester

By The Womens Room

Having never been sporty, I have horrible memories of sports lessons at school, where I always picked last for teams. I have also always loved a musical and have more than my fair share of GBF's (gay best friends), so the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 15, 2010

TWR streetstyle: Angela

By The Womens Room

TWR caught up with Angela this week during an ELM sample sale, where she was frantically busy selling stuff. Angela can sell anything to anyone so it's not surprising that TWR had to fall back on a couple of the Useful… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutMay 14, 2010

We love: Our Patterned Hand

By The Womens Room

As you know we are big fans of fabric and haberdashery shops and are always on the look out for new and interesting places to add to our list of favourites. For a while now we have been bemoaning the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 13, 2010

Shopping with experts: Accessorize lap top bags

By The Womens Room

Now this we totally LOVE, big time. TWR was at Accessorize's autumn 2010 press day yesterday and spotted this wonderfully glamourous laptop bag. We have long moaned about the lack of well priced and nicely designed laptop bags, the ones… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Things We LoveMay 12, 2010

You heard it here first: Jesus sandals are back

By The Womens Room

We like to think we are ahead of the game fashion wise, here at The Womens Room. After all we are trends forecasters, therefore at the cutting edge of all things new. Aren’t we? Remember we told you about clogs… Read More

Middle Aged MumMay 11, 2010

Middleagemum.com: understanding the remote

By The Womens Room

I was hugely cheered to see this picture on The Selby of the Neistat brothers' way of trying to understand their remote controls. It's not just me then, who finds the battery of remotes needed to work the TV incomprehensible.… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenMay 11, 2010

Simple pleasures: flowers at Boden

By The Womens Room

We loved the flowers at the Boden autumn press day, very bright and jolly. The idea of doing lots of different vases full of one type of flower in one colour works brilliantly in big numbers….smelt lovely too.… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 10, 2010

We love: Top Shop make up

By The Womens Room

The great thing abut Top Shop over the last few years, is that if you are a discerning shopper of any age, you will always be able to find something to add excitement to your wardrobe. Whether its a OTT… Read More

Out & AboutMay 9, 2010

Simple pleasures: fashion origami

By The Womens Room

If, like us, you are sitting around wondering who on earth won the election and you are a bit bored of listening to the radio (can those exhausted political commentators keep going on guess work much longer, we wonder?) or watching TV,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 8, 2010

Shopping with experts: Johnnie B

By The Womens Room

When the ‘the new teen collection for those aged 10 years and up’, Johnnie B, popped through our door this week, I thought who better to ask about a range aimed at teens, than the teens themselves. I had a… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 7, 2010

Shopping with experts: Joan Pressley’s hat shop

By The Womens Room

Last year we were introduced to Joan Pressley's hat shop when middleteenageson went to help out his girlfriend, who is Joan's grand daughter, during Ascot week. He entertained us with stories of an incredibly busy days spent packing up hats to… Read More

Out & AboutMay 6, 2010

Fight the fight

By The Womens Room

Whatever you decide to vote today, just remember that it is less than 100 years since women were given the right to vote. Maybe it's a good day to remind our daughters of that fact? Thanks Millicent Fawcett, Emily Wilding… Read More

Home & GardenMay 6, 2010

We love: Bokja

By The Womens Room

We came across Bokja when we visited Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan recently. Lebanese designers Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibri created the company in 2000 and have built up a cult following over the last ten years. Their vintage furniture… Read More

Out & AboutMay 5, 2010

We love: The Enchanted Palace

By The Womens Room

Until this weekend, I'd never been to Kensington Palace, didn't even know you COULD go inside, I had assumed it was the chill-out pad of minor royals who didn't make it to first grade palace accommodation. Well the place is… Read More

Out & AboutMay 4, 2010

We loved: Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl

By The Womens Room

We are sad to hear that actress Lynn Redgrave has died of breast cancer at the age of 67. She was treated for cancer in 2003 and wrote a book in 2004 with her daughter Annabel Clark about her fight… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 3, 2010

Middleagemum.com: what, this old thing?

By The Womens Room

This week I have bought more than I should have. Not only did I buy two pairs of shoes at the Dover Street market MARKET (yes, I know I only mentioned one pair here…) but I also bought an Armand… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 2, 2010

How low will you go?

By The Womens Room

Fashion, as you know, is a very strange thing, we try not to take it too seriously and have often been heard to say 'Its only fashion, no ones going to die', especially when called to an 'emergency trend meeting'… Read More

Home & GardenMay 1, 2010

We love: John Lewis & Billy Joel

By The Womens Room

Spotted in The Guardian this morning, the new John Lewis ad has already attracted 100,000 hits on YouTube, so maybe you’ve already seen this. I once interviewed the marketing manager of John Lewis who told me that you only really… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 1, 2010

Something for the weekend: Dover Street Market MARKET

By The Womens Room

Christian Louboutin for L'Wren Scott at Dover Street Market's MARKET, reduced to £88.00, When Jane and I hear the word SALE in relation to retail, we are often overwhelmed with a feeling of Sale Fatigue. Our years spent in the industry have made… Read More

Out & AboutApril 30, 2010

Middleagemum.com: Who to choose?

By The Womens Room

ho How are you going to decide who to vote for? Will you carefully read all the parties major policies, visit your local MP's election office, talk to key members of your community and garner their thoughts? Or will you go… Read More

Home & GardenApril 29, 2010

We are reading: holiday blog review

By The Womens Room

I brought my computer on holiday with me, because I go into a cold sweat if I think about having to be separated from it for any length of time. Middleagedad moaned at me for 'bloody blogging' the whole time… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 28, 2010

Simple pleasures: puppy love

By The Womens Room

Looking after a friends pug over the Easter holidays, made me think that perhaps all mothers of teenagers should have a dog. There is nothing like that unconditional, non judgmental, adoration, that only a dog can give. Despite the fact… Read More

We Are ReadingApril 27, 2010

What to read on holiday

By The Womens Room

We've got through a LOT of books on our extended holiday, as there is not much to do here apart from read and gaze out to sea. Here's what Amanda's family thought of the following: Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel. 9/10… Read More

Middle Aged MumApril 26, 2010

Middleagemum.com: Work trips

By The Womens Room

The great thing about working in fashion is the opportunity to travel. I have been all over the world and feel very lucky to have visited so many amazing places. When I first started travelling as a young designer in… Read More

Home & GardenApril 25, 2010

We love: rum punch

By The Womens Room

While marooned here in the Caribbean, we have been sustained by Venesa's rum punch, which she makes in large containerfuls and stores in the fridge. After a couple of weeks of regular daily hits, we've developed something of a rum… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenApril 24, 2010

Style icon: Rossana Orlandi

By The Womens Room

Rossana Orlandi is the owner of one of the most amazing shops we have ever visited (and believe me, between us, we have probably visited every major shop in the world worth knowing about) I was beside myself when I… Read More

Home & GardenApril 23, 2010

Readers Kitchens: Venesa from Macaroni Beach

By The Womens Room

Who: Venesa Where: Macaroni Beach House, Mustique What do you do in your kitchen and with who? A lot of cooking! I am the chef here at the Macaroni Beach House so I am always making deserts, pastries, lunches and suppers… Read More