Category: Honest Fashion
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Style Diary #04 – Party Lace
This year I’ve gone for double lace as my party season look. I’ve dabbled in lace before but never gone for matching skirt and blouse. I knew as soon as I saw the quality of the lace that I would like this look, It’s very Italian, very grown up, a little Dolce & Gabanna…
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Sunday Supplement #17
So by the time you read this I will be in Venice, City of water and love. Oh, how I’ve longed to float around St Marks Square in Palazzo pants, an oversized sun hat and sunglasses, all silk and ethereal loveliness like Amal Clooney. Except it’s the end of November and it’s cold and raining…
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Business Blues – AW15
Like a lot of women my smart business and meetings wardrobe consists of a lot of black, and a lot of grey. Smart easy boardroom colours that I can mix and match. The one other colour in which I dabble is Navy. Navy is a good Winter colour, it suits my blonde hair and can be…
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Style Diary #03 – BFW All Black
Good Morning Time for a quick Autumn Style post today. Since I attended the CCUOCO SS16 LFW show in September I’ve been obsessed with Candice Cuoco’s sleek minimal style. What could be simpler winter wear than a black leather skirt teamed with a fine knit polo neck? The Outfit was from her A/W15 Collection, for the Woman…
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Style Diary #02 – LFW All White
There’s been a lot of press about White as a trend colour this Autumn and Winter, in particular, White Coats have been touted as the colour or non-colour coat of the season to buy. Back in August I bought a lovely silk white dress in the Next sale, perfect for London Fashion Week. First off…
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Style Diary #01 – LFW
Hooray! As much as I hate to see the sunshine go I’m a little bit delighted to see rain clouds this morning. For as we all know the best things about Autumn are boots and coats! My absolute best buy so far this Autumn Winter season has been skinny ankle boots from Topshop. I bought…
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Zandra Rhodes & People Tree
As part of the run-up to this year’s London Fashion Week, I attended the launch of a collaboration between Dame Zandra Rhodes and People Tree. Zandra Rhodes needs no explanation, as a peer of British Fashion Design, but if you’ve not heard of People Tree, they are the sustainable Fair Trade pioneers, the home of…
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Paul Costelloe SS16 – New Reflections
During London Fashion Week, Paul Costelloe presented his Spring/Summer 2016 collection, ‘New Reflections’. Set in the prestigious Hotel Cafe Royal, this catwalk show was never going to be anything other than glamorous. The show started with bright tailored coats and short full-skirted dresses. With a nod to the 60’s, Costelloe has experimented with neoprene fabrics in…
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Pam Hogg Lawless SS16
Pam Hogg known for her rebellious eccentric catwalk shows didn’t disappoint for her London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 16 catwalk show. Freemasons’s Hall set the backdrop for her vibrant punk take on the Wild West. Entitled Lawless, first to hit the catwalk were her bright, skin-tight, sometimes fringed catsuits, followed by a kind of poncho declaring ‘Give…
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CCUOCO SS16 COLLECTION AT LONDON FASHION WEEK
After an absolutely exhausting London Fashion Week, followed by illness (I’ll spare you the details) I’m back at my desk and I’m dedicating the whole week to fashion. First on my list is one of my favourite shows of London Fashion Week SS16, CCUOCO. You may not have heard the name yet, but I think…
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London Fashion Week – Spring Summer 2016
Today is day one of London Fashion Week. The best of British and International designers will showcase their new collections for Spring/Summer 2016. It may seem a long time off but what you see on the catwalks this week will transcend through the different levels of fashion and by the Spring you may well be…
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Jumpsuit Season
The other day the weather was choosing to be incredibly British. Storms and rain in the morning, blowing a gale at lunchtime and sunny by the afternoon. I had a 4pm meeting in Brighton, so what to wear? Aside from packing my brolly, I’d no idea. Then I remembered on the back of my wardrobe…
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M&S Grey Overcoat
Having trawled the internet and September magazines I’ve come up with my favourite Overcoat so far, and yes it’s by M&S! The reasons that I like it are thus… 1/ It’s made of New Wool – Which is a Wool and Polyester mix, so the feel and touch of Wool but not scratchy with a bit…
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Early Autumn Wardrobe
So Autumn is officially here. I’ve really been looking forward to September and Autumn/Winter dressing. The trouble is it still feels very summery, to be honest, early Autumn dressing can be a little tricky. Sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy, sunny, and so it goes on……. So I’ve taken two trends for Autumn Winter 2015, the Pussy…
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Thinking of Topshop Boots
Hello! It’s been a while. Well, it’s been August so I had a little time away from the blog. It’s not what you think, Mr B, alas did not whip me off to foreign climes. Instead, we painted the house, and what do you know? It’s grey! The house is not the only thing grey…