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Alexa Chung
Cheap frills: Secondhand clothes and sustainable fashion
As with most of my blog posts, this one has been formulating in the back of my mind since, well, January actually. I KNOW. See, I was going to herald in the new year with a flashy announcement-style post, boldly declaring that I wouldn’t be buying any new clothing this year. Any further addition to […]
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Best of British // Barbour: the uniform of Hoxton Farmers and Alexa Chung. And the Royal Family. Yah?
Oh, we all know how I love a heritage brand (have I mentioned I work in menswear 7,896,467 times yet? Oh, I have. Soz) and you don’t get much more heritage than early 1900’s J Barbour & Sons Ltd’s oilskin clothing factories and warehouse men AKA a British Brand we love here at LB HQ. […]
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Do it like a dude in Grenson brogues…
Working in menswear, I’ve been accidentally emulating men’s trends for the last couple of seasons (and it has had absolutely nothing to do with coming into work in yesterday’s clothes with only a sample cupboard full of lumberjack shirts and over sized tees to cover this fact – NOTHING I TELL YOU). Now I’ve never […]
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What style means to me // Well, ELLE magazine seemed to like it, anyway…
Inspired by Our Chrissy‘s recent Clothing Chameleon post, I thought I’d dust off the below piece of prose. I wrote it a couple of years ago for the ELLE writing competition. I didn’t win, but I did get name-checked in the January 2010 issue as a finalist, so technically I was printed in ELLE, anyway. […]
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Five women we’d rather see as Future Queen than Kate Middleton
Yah, Kate Middleton, yah, yah. She’s ok we s’pose. Shiny hair, a nice line in Burberry trenches and a love of Haribo = all good in our book. But she’s just a bit, well, ‘meh’, isn’t she? Wouldn’t you like to see someone with a bit more attitude take to the future-throne and represent good […]
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