Tag: London Fashion Week

  • Sunday Supplement #10

    Sunday Supplement #10

    Two Words – ROAD TRIP! Mr B, Likes to get out on the road from time to time visiting Independent menswear stores and regional department stores.  As a Men’s accessories supplier with his company denisonboston he finds it so much nicer catching up with stores, clients and some industry gossip along the way. It has…

  • London Fashion Week – Insider Beauty Tips

    London Fashion Week – Insider Beauty Tips

    London Fashion Week is over for another season and while I may have repetitive strain injury from working a multitude of social media platforms, and feet that have the gnarly look of walking around in heels over London’s cobbled streets for five days, I’m happy to report my ‘made-up’ face survived the flash bulbs, queues…

  • JAMIE WEI: HUANG #LFW  – Catwalk Show

    JAMIE WEI: HUANG #LFW – Catwalk Show

    Inspiration for AW15 was taken from Jamie Wei Huang’s strong beliefs on seeking inner –self through design, a young woman and her libidinous life inspired by film – Nymphomaniac. …….Need I say anymore? If I mention leather, metal trimmings and cat o’nine tails you begin to get the picture?  However the collection also displays the feminine…

  • Olympus PEN – The Best Digital Camera for Bloggers

    Olympus PEN – The Best Digital Camera for Bloggers

    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…

  • QVC Catwalk Show

    QVC Catwalk Show

      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

    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…

  • Mimi Fasi A/W 14 Catwalk Show

    Mimi Fasi A/W 14 Catwalk Show

    The end of London Fashion Week and all is calm! Ah!  Looking forward to not spending too much time on delayed trains and navigating the whole cobbles, heels and hills routine at Somerset House and Freemason’s Hall. slouchy jeans socks and flats for me for the rest of this week….hell I may spend some of…

  • Amanda Wakeley – London Fashion Week Salon Show

    Amanda Wakeley – London Fashion Week Salon Show

    I was lucky enough to be invited to the Amanda Wakeley Salon show this London Fashion Week.  Situated in the heart of Mayfair Amanda’s beautiful store and showroom was full of London’s fashion pack from buyers and presenters to journalists and bloggers. The show itself was amazing, using only a black and slightly monochrome palate,…

  • Jamie Wei Huang

    Jamie Wei Huang

    One of the first shows I caught this fashion week was Jamie Wei Huang. Think tailoring undone. Beautiful full length coats with high colours, functional, utilatrian, tool belts, soft delicate fabrics combined with tough fabrics, heavy wool, leather, tweed. Leather strapped dresses and the beautiful oversized hand clutch, not to mention the balaclava…..oh yes balaclava’s…

  • London Fashion Week A/W 14

    London Fashion Week A/W 14

    Yesterday was valentine’s day, Friday 14th Feb, it was also the start of London Fashion Week A/W 14.  So I probably spent about half an hour with Mr B in the morning and and hour in the evening before crashing, I got flowers and gave a poem about an Orange (very apt if you know…

  • Ones To Watch

    Ones To Watch

    Pick of LFW day one for me was fashion Scout’s Ones To Watch. Set in the majestic Freemasons Hall the best of the new seasons fashion graduates showcased their SS14 looks. Fashion Scout is internationally recognised as the leading platform for new design talent. Celebrities and fashion royalty jostled for seats. Lights down. Bold structured…

  • London Fashion Week – Day One – Sunshine or Rain?

    London Fashion Week – Day One – Sunshine or Rain?

    It’s arrived! Day 1 of London Fashion week. Fresh from long haul flights from #NYFW designers, editors and models get ready for 5 days of fashion mayhem across the capital. Anyone who has experienced #LFW will know its not all Haute Couture and Fine Dining….For many of us its rushing across London in high heels…

  • Modern Love at London Fashion Weekend

    Modern Love at London Fashion Weekend

    London Fashion Week has not yet started and already I’m talking about it ending….If London Fashion Week is all about the fashion industry going gaga over fashion then London Fashion Weekend is a chance for the public, ordinary people who love fashion to have a look in on the fashion world at key trends and…

  • London Fashion Week – Starts Friday

    London Fashion Week – Starts Friday

    Morning! There’s something in the air and its not the change of weather……it smells like Autumn…..and there’s a faint smell of CHANEL…….Ah! It’s September so it must be time for London Fashion Week. If you’re involved in the fashion Industry then this week is a heady mix of stress and excitement…..the huge amount of planning…

  • Countdown to LFW

    Countdown to LFW

    Next Week sees the start of London Fashion Week…Friday the 13th – Lucky for some see’s the start of a hectic week of zig zagging across London for shows, launches and various fashion events. I’ll be reporting back from some of the show’s with new season news and pictures. Although the week feels like a…