Category: Honest Fashion

  • Olympus PEN – The Best Digital Camera for Bloggers

    Olympus PEN – The Best Digital Camera for Bloggers

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    Helllooooo….. I felt the need to tell you about the new love of my life……Apart from Mr B, Blue the puppy, my folks and the obvious stuff this new girl in my life is seriously sexy, all sleek lines and natural charm,  Yet she is easy, boy is she easy and so petit you can…

  • Jas MB Fashion Bloggers Lunch

    Jas MB Fashion Bloggers Lunch

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    In my job as a fashion PR and blogger I get to do some pretty amazing things and hang out with some fantastically awesome people. Almost a month ago I organised a lunch for Jas MB London connecting the brand with bloggers.  The lunch took place in the outstanding Soho dining institution that is L’Escargot.…

  • London Collections: Men AW15

    London Collections: Men AW15

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    The first fashion shows of the season and of the year started this weekend with London Collections: Men LC:M. Armed with a bag full of invites and my new Olympus PEN Camera Mr B and I set off for a day of fashion. Alas time and the trains were not on our side.  First we…

  • Faux Fur Snow Lynx from Dennis Basso

    Faux Fur Snow Lynx from Dennis Basso

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      One of the most exciting things about Winter is snuggling up in layers of beautiful textures leather,mohair, cashmere, faux fur. Faux fur was always real furs cheaper sister until recent years…..this year however its Faux Fur that you must be seen in. Its been the talk of the catwalks, the fashonistas, and the high…

  • Hope&Harlequin – Sassy Vintage Style

    Hope&Harlequin – Sassy Vintage Style

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    If you live in Brighton and you’ve been living in a cave for the past three years you may not have heard of the truly beautiful vintage shop in Brighton’s North Laine Hope & Harlequin The rest of the population of Brighton & Hove know it well as do day trippers and ladies who love vintage…

  • Brighton Fashion Week 2014 – Zeitgeist Catwalk Show

    Brighton Fashion Week 2014 – Zeitgeist Catwalk Show

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    Quick post from me this morning.  Brighton Fashion Week took place earlier this month, its premiere designer show Zeitgeist was a real joy for the senses.  I was lucky enough to get front row seats along with a host of fashion journalists and bloggers,  Nine designers showed their new collections in what was a jaw…

  • Oscar de la Renta Grand Master of the Gown

    Oscar de la Renta Grand Master of the Gown

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    You may have heard the sad news this morning of Oscar de la Renta’s passing, at 82 we have lost a grand master of the classic evening dress. I don’t know a great deal about the man but boy do I know his dresses.  He was the grand master of the gown, that american, full…

  • Brighton Fashion Week Sustain Catwalk Show 2014

    Brighton Fashion Week Sustain Catwalk Show 2014

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    It’s only a week ago that I was enjoying the Sustain Fashion Show part of Brighton Fashion Week. A show created to showcase Brighton’s sustainable and vintage fashion talent. With a mixture of garments made from recycled home materials, sustained materials and vintage finds it was an extremely enjoyable experience.  While I do have a…

  • Jas MB London

    Jas MB London

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    I’ve been lucky enough to be hanging around in Shoreditch a lot lately, you’ll have noticed if you follow me on Instagram lots more in the way of  uber cool restaurants, cafes the occasional piece of street art and some breathtakingly beautiful bags. Shorditch is home to Jas MB London which sits betwix the trendy…

  • QVC Catwalk Show

    QVC Catwalk Show

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      This season QVC have expanded their fashion, handbag and shoe range and I was invited to Vinopolis in London to see their catwalk show.  As a long time fan of QVC beauty products (it’s our family’s go to website for all our beauty buys and its jewellery shop is amazing) the clothes had never…

  • London Fashion Week SS15

    London Fashion Week SS15

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    Sunday evening 10.20 pm: It’s been a week…..Two press days, four catwalk shows, three parties, one after party, one really awful party and one amazing fashion lock in and its just day three! It can only be London Fashion Week Spring Summer 2015…….. My top 5 #LFW highs and lows so far 1/ The Lavazza…

  • London Collections Men

    London Collections Men

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    London Collections Men is the relatively new destination on the worldwide fashion callendar. Backed by the British Fashion Council and GQ’s Dylan Jones its the Menswear alternative to London Fashion Week. Controversial in its timing (for the past four seasons its clashed with Florences Pitti Uomo, this has now been resolved) and LCM has emerged…

  • Blissful Bank Holiday

    Blissful Bank Holiday

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    What a week its been! I’ve had one of those crazy busy weeks when you’ve been spinning so many plates you’ve made yourself feel dizzy! It started with a QVC press day (amazing new products for AW14), then a sales trip to Selfridges, a photoshoot for Red Magazine and Schwarzkopf (I know!), a charity fun…

  • Helly Hansen – Cool Kit

    Helly Hansen – Cool Kit

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    Long time ago, when I first began to run for something other than the school bus, running kit was practical. Do you remember gym shorts and gym slips? Mine were navy blue and we called them passion killers. Then in the late 80’s and 90’s something shifted. Sports wear was developed for the street and…

  • Modern Love Pop Up

    Modern Love Pop Up

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    Hope you had a good Easter holiday. So nice to take some time off, see friends, cook for family, attempt DIY, gardening (weather permitting) and shop for an Easter treat! My Mum said that when she was little, she and her sister were always made a new dress for Easter, a spring type Sunday best…