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Fashion & BeautyJune 2, 2017

Older Models Are Beautiful, Why Don’t We See More Of Them?

By Amanda

I was going to write about my trip to the Venice Biennale art show today, but that will have to wait, because Harper’s Bazaar needs a big pat on the back for its July photo shoot, featuring two beautiful, older… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 15, 2016

Another look at the Spring Bomber Jacket

By Amanda

What I’m looking for with my fantasy spring bomber jacket is exactly this look above, on Ana Gimeno Brugada, my current style crush and a woman whose wardrobe I would happily sell my soul for. I’m looking for an oversized… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyFebruary 1, 2016

Street style from Jaipur Literary Festival with Ishtailista, Part One

By Amanda

In Rajasthan at the end of every January, the Jaipur Literary Festival takes place, closely followed by the Wonderful Workshops craft week, both a huge draw for arty and bookish types from both India and around the globe, keen for… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutJanuary 29, 2016

Guest Blogger from New York: Elena Bowes looks at Jussara Lee

By Amanda

Today’s guest blogger is reader Elena Bowes, a London based American cultural writer who finds herself in New York a lot. She has volunteered to search out interesting stores and events happening in NYC for us, for anyone visiting. Over… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 18, 2016

January Style Crush: Ellen DeGeneres and her Home

By Amanda

While we’re all de cluttering our living spaces and tidying up our sock drawers Kondo-style, the collector in me still can’t help looking at a clear table surface without thinking ‘that space needs something on it’. However, the January ‘tidy-clutter’… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 21, 2015

Best of Frieze Fashion: trousers and casual tailoring

By Amanda

Back at Frieze, the second big clothes story after capes was the abundance of beautiful, easy-tailored trousers, mostly worn with trainers. It’s the ‘gentlewoman styling’ we’ve been talking about (well, along with everyone else) recently, that lovely, pared-back-but-still-elegant take on… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 4, 2015

Dear Finery London, this has to stop……

By Amanda

Dear Finery London, Look, we’re going to have to break off our relationship. I’m sorry but we just can’t go on like this. It’s not you, you’ve been wonderful, too wonderful in fact, it’s all my fault, I just can’t… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 2, 2015

Storytelling with clothes: a trip to Devon

By Amanda

This weekend I went to Devon to see my 83 year old dad and his (very slightly) younger sister, my aunt. We do very little, just sit around my aunt’s kitchen table reminiscing, eating Cornish pasties (my aunt makes the… Read More

Art & CultureJune 3, 2015

Guest post: The Rare and Remarkable Ruth Artmonsky

By Amanda

Our guest blog slot has enabled some readers to interview women who have long fascinated them, today our guest blogger Anna Lambert tells us about when she met the inspiring Ruth Artmonsky… Ever heard of Ruth Artmonsky? Possibly not –… Read More

Art & CultureMay 28, 2015

Women artists at The Venice Art Biennale, TWR’s top picks

By Amanda

Last week I went to the Venice Art Biennale, I know, tough gig, traipsing around the beautiful Italian city, eating more pasta that is good for a girl and trying to figure out how a bottle of tequila can be… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 20, 2015

A Post Full of Indigo

By Amanda

I promise I’ll shut up about indigo after this post, but fashion brands have really gone wild for my favourite colour this season and as we know, best to grab the highlights while we can because next season/year might see… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingMay 13, 2015

Sonia Delaunay by Tate Publishing

By Amanda

For anyone unable to visit the truly wonderful Sonia Delaunay exhibition at Tate Modern any time soon, then I can highly recommend the book. I bought it, something I rarely do these days due to shelf space and general book… Read More

Health & HappinessMay 7, 2015

Adventures Before Dementia: Life in the Slow Lane

By Amanda

What happens to a committed clothes girl when she moves away from fashion’s fast lane? We’re back with Bebe in France to find out… It’s hard to believe that it’s exactly a year since I swapped the frantic world of… Read More

Home & GardenApril 30, 2015

Adventures Before Dementia, Gardener’s World

By Amanda

We’re back in France with Bebe, and this week we’ve moved to the garden… Anyone who like me has spent years living in the city without any outside space bigger than the window-sill will know what it feels like to… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 28, 2015

Be Bolder with Older!

By Amanda

We are indebted to TWR reader Andrea, who tipped us off about the fabulous new pro-age site Bolder, launched this March by photographer Helen Cathcart and freelance writer Dominique Afacan. The site has a simple mission, to champion people… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingApril 1, 2015

Icons of Women’s Style, by Josh Sims

By Amanda

This is a lovely book, not as I first thought on glimpsing the title, about stylish female icons, but about the actual clothes that have become icons, so the pencil skirt, the trench coat, the twinset, pyjama pants and so… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 21, 2015

Weekend Woman: Mary Berry

By Amanda

It’s hardly original I know putting Mary up as our weekend woman, but seeing her on the BBC’s Red Nose Day Bake Off, how witty and funny she was, and then reading this great interview with her in the Observer… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 18, 2015

Gentlewoman styling #2: slouchy trousers

By Amanda

In a completely ironic turn of events, elasticated waist trousers are hot fashion news this season. We seem to have spent a lot of time on TWR saying how we do NOT want to slip into the old cliche of… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 16, 2015

Watch this: Iris Apfel at The Met and Raf Simons at Dior

By Amanda

A couple of fashion film tips for you today, both of which look unmissable and show how style, imagination and creativity are totally unrelated to age. Above is a trailer from Iris, a documentary film by director Albert Maysles, about… Read More

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 & BeautyMarch 12, 2015

We are in April’s Good Housekeeping!

By Amanda

If you have a copy of Good Housekeeping for April, turn to page 137, where we are on the Best Dress List…oh yeah….. Actually, we are both a bit blithery about having our photo taken, but Jo Atkinson from the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 6, 2015

What hipsters think they’ll look like when they’re older

By Amanda

I am indebted to eldestson, who sent me these images from Vice magazine via email with the title ‘Mum! This is what I’ll look like when I’m older!’ Eldest son is a fully paid up hipster, although he’ll object very… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 28, 2015

Weekend Woman: Patricia Arquette

By Amanda

Our Weekend Woman can only be Patricia Arquette this week, for her impassioned speech on the need for pay equality for women, at The Oscars 2015. She won her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Boyhood, a really fabulous film… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 26, 2015

Readers kitchens: Helen from South East London

By Amanda

It’s been a while since we’ve had a Readers Kitchens feature, but when I recently saw Helen’s kitchen, so beautifully restored by her and her partner (and a brilliant carpenter apparently) I begged her to let us put it up.… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 24, 2015

In praise of casual camel

By Amanda

In the madness of keeping up with the trends as they happen at Fashion Weeks all over the globe (well ok, we appreciate you might not ALL be as fussed as we are) and all that ‘double seasoning’ (it’s a… Read More

Health & HappinessFebruary 22, 2015

Weekend Womon: Mariella Frostrup

By Amanda

I’ve just read Mariella’s excellent article in today’s Observer Magazine on ‘Life After 50’ and for this, she gets to be our Weekend Woman. In it she explains what turning 50 was like in terms of her professional life -a… Read More

Out & AboutFebruary 20, 2015

How to run a restaurant chain, by Rebecca Mascarenhas

By Amanda

I got to know my Barnes neighbour Rebecca Mascarenhas by reputation before I actually met her, because she started Sonny’s restaurant in Barnes not long after we first moved here and it became one of THE places everyone went to… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingFebruary 18, 2015

Have I Said Too Much? by Carole White

By Amanda

Fessing up, I haven’y read this yet, but I bet it’s fabulous. You may remember we interviewed Carole back here, where she was extremely entertaining and very candid on the state of the fashion model industry. She has run her… 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 & BeautyFebruary 7, 2015

Weekend Woman: Rosanne Cash

By Amanda

I was fortunate enough to meet Rosanne Cash when I went to New York last December, not at some fancy pants press party but at an afternoon sewing bee with my friend Kay, where Rosanne was busy making an Alabama… Read More