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Fashion & BeautyMarch 14, 2015

Weekend Woman: Björk

By Amanda

Björk is described in this month’s The Gentlewoman, rightly, as a ‘sonic genius’, but she is of course much more than this. As well as being ground-breakingly original in her music -even people who don’t like it acknowledge her vision… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 12, 2015

Style icon: Joni Mitchell

By Amanda

If there was a God and she happened to be female, then surely she’d look like Joni Mitchell in last weeks New York Magazine? Although would God be able to afford Lanvin, which is what Joni is wearing in the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 8, 2015

Style & Literary Icon: Joan Didion

By Jane

I love Pheobe Philo for all sorts of reasons, not least because she designs wearable clothes for real women and has heralded a movement towards simple lines and pared down styling. Chosing the iconic writer Joan Didion as the face… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 29, 2014

Weekend Woman: Sylvie Guillem

By Amanda

The extraordinary ballet dancer Sylvie Guillem has announced she is to retire from dance now she has reached 50. Sylvie is breathtaking to watch and she is the only dancer who has ever made me cry at a performance, she… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 24, 2014

Style Icon: Lord Shoreditch, aka Steve Edge

By Jane

We don’t often feature men in our style icon posts, not because older men don’t inspire us – there simply don’t seem to be so many men willing to take risks with their clothes as they age. I recently came… Read More

Health & HappinessSeptember 6, 2014

Weekend Woman: Joan Rivers

By Amanda

What sad news that Joan Rivers has died. We never got around to adding her to our weekend women list while she was alive, so we’ll just have to do it now. To be honest, Joan seemed so indestructible in… Read More

Health & HappinessJune 28, 2014

Weekend Woman: Debbie Harry

By Amanda

There was a great feature on Debbie Harry (born 1945) in The Telegraph last week (Hip Hip Harry) and I immediately thought she should be this week’s Weekend Woman. The awesome Ms Harry must be one of our greatest grown… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 17, 2012

Way to go Zelda

By Jane

We were sad to wake up to the news that one of our favourite style icons Zelda Kaplan, had died yesterday. 95 year old Zelda was a regular on the New York social scene, telling New York magazine in 2010,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 13, 2011

Style Icon: Jetsun Pema

By Jane

Last month King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk of Bhutan married 21 year old student Jetsun Pema, in a lavish ceremony in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. The wedding was a huge event in the tiny, remote kingdom, as the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 31, 2010

Style icon: Franca Sozzani

By The Womens Room

Editor of Italian Vogue since 1988, Franco Sozzani is believe it or not, 60 years old. Ok she works in fashion, so she should know how to dress. But doesn't she look amazing, she even manages to pull off wearing… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 29, 2010

Style icon: Chantal Biya

By The Womens Room

Ok, we may be being a little ironic here when we call the first lady of Cameroon Chantal Biya a style icon, as she isn't really stylish in the conventional sense. But there is something truly fabulous about her, in… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 10, 2010

Style icon: Vera Neumann

By The Womens Room

We came across a lovely book about print designer Vera Neumann recently and have been intrigued by her ever since. Described as an unlikely revolutionary, Vera's print designs were everywhere in the 1960's and her influence is still very much… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 24, 2009

We Love: Fashionistable

By The Womens Room

There are more than a few great street style blogs out there, but very few who feature many people over the age of 30 (with the exception of our beloved Sartorialist of course). So we were delighted to find Fashionistable, by… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 16, 2009

Style icon: Felicity Green

By The Womens Room

As part of the day job, we met Felicity Green, the inspiring fashion editor who gave Biba her first break and was influential in exploding 60s fashion onto the world via The Mirror Group, where for twenty one years she… Read More