Tag: fashion blog
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Spring Summer 2018 Fashion – Catwalk Collections at Charity Shop Prices
At long last the sun is here, and it finally feels like Spring. Excellent news! I think I speak for the whole Nation when I say we were all beyond happy to feel the sun on our faces. Then you look in your wardrobe to pull together a Spring outfit but all you see is…
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Valentine’s Style
Not going out is the new going out and what better way to celebrate Valentines Day than with a meal at home. Warm fire, candles, pretty table settings and flowers. Add cool music and a glass of fine wine and you have the beginnings of a fantastic evening. Now all you need to do is…
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Honest Christmas Guide for Her
Here it is the definitive gift guide for her. Gentlemen take note you can’t really go wrong with any of these beautiful buys. For Her 1. 3 L’Imperatrice, Dolce & Gabbana, Amazon 2. Amazon Fire Tablet, 7” Magenta 3. Heaven by Deborah Mitchell, Bee Kit. 4. Monogrammed Necklace, Thomas Sabo 5. Sanctuary Spa, Votive Candles…
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Sunday Supplement #36
A couple of weeks ago over dinner with friends, I was introduced to the Danish idea of ‘Hygge’. Now I knew the Danes have an amazing sense of style but I knew nothing of this Scandi coated lifestyle nonsense. Over dinner, I learned it’s the way the Danes get through the cold dark winter by restoring…
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El Oceano – Honest Travel
El Oceano is a dream of a Hotel. Nestled in a naturally beautiful cove along Mijas Costa in Andalucia. The hotel boasts five star beautifully decorated rooms, an award winning restaurant and perhaps most impressively a swim up Polynesian bar with views overlooking the Mediterranean. I first visited El Oceano around my tenth birthday, back then it…
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LFW Sunday Supplement #35
September is the best month of the year for me. It’s still a little warm from the Summer, we have Vogues bumper September Issue to feed on and we have Autumn/Winter wear to dive into, coats, boots, hats. Best of all London host’s one of my favourite events, London fashion Week. September is also my…
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Off The Shoulder
Hey I’ve been away. Busy work week followed by a holiday in France (More about that later). This last week I have been nodding to the much talked about ‘Off the Shoulder’ trend. I packed for my holiday carefully chosen off the shoulder tops, shirts, and dresses, ranging from Marks and Spencer’s much hailed White…
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London Collections Men
London Collections Men Spring Summer 2017 was the best all in one place show of Men’swear that I have ever seen in this country. Surpassing even Florence’s Pitti Uomo our own London show had it all, international press, buyers and a plethora of Menswear from exhibitions to presentations and catwalk shows. I caught a few…
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The Statement Necklace – Style Diary #08
My work wardrobe although varied has some no-nonsense staples. For this season frayed jeans (soft, comfortable denim) clog sandals of various colours and heights, shirts, striped, frilled, plain white and a good smartish jacket. This last week I’ve found a new staple that I now seem to be wearing every day, behold the statement necklace. I’ve…
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Met Gala 2016
I couldn’t pull myself out of bed this morning. Not a hangover from the bank holiday but an amazing feed of beautiful people in the most overly sparkly frocks. I was, of course, on Instagram glued to the morning after last night’s Met Gala. The annual Met Gala held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in…
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Silver Leather – Style Diary #07
I’ve got a thing for silver leather. It started last Summer when a lot of brands were using metallics and iridescent looks on leather clothes and accessories. It was around that time that I got my eye on this bold silver leather Rucksack by Jas MB London. Similar here. This Summer the high Streets are embracing the…
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Sunday Supplement #31
How glorious has the sun been today? We were all at home today in what seems like weeks of doing different things. We decided to walk over to our beach and catch a bit of this year’s Brighton Marathon. A week of doing other things here and there, Brighton, Shoreham, London makes home seem so…
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Long Weekend Wardrobe
Love clothes, hate packing? Me too. I have a few rules that I try to stick to when packing for a long weekend away, here’s how I (try) to spend less time packing more time weekending! 1/ Choose your clothes around the number of days you have away. This Easter I have three whole days…
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Sunday Supplement #28
Here we are in March and it finally feels like the beginning of Spring……finally? On the South coast, we have been enjoying Spring Tides, when the sea goes far out and there’s a whole lot more beach to enjoy. Spring Tides so called not because of Spring (though the best ones do happen just now) are…