Design Museum: Women Fashion Power // Top 4 Lessons
The Design Museum’s Women Fashion Power runs until mid-April and is a fascinating exploration of the language of clothes and power.
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Laura Markwardt
Eats fashion on toast for breakfast. Works in fashion for an online retailer.
Frightfully chic // The grown-up guide to Halloween fashion
For sophisticated ghouls, sorry girls (cough) who want to nod to Halloween without crashing the spook-fest dressed as road kill.
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Night Running: How to train in the dark
It's a dark affair: With the change in Daylight Savings imminent, here's how to transition to (or start!) running at night...
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Style Bite // How to avoid faux fur fails
Tactile texture has crept onto the morning commute, rainbow colours are encroaching on the high street and sporadic fluff pretty much owned fashion month.
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Women in men’s pants // The time is now
It’s not about strong sartorial assertions or sexualising traditional masculinity; rather it’s just about finding a bloody good pair of joggers and maybe some oversize Cashmere...
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Top of the crops // A crop top for every occasion
We’re drowning in Bank Holidays and the festival season is neigh. Purlease don’t say you’re wearing cutoffs and a baseball tee? And come to think of it, your nine to five shell tops and shirting are ripe for a refresh too. The silhouette of the season is the crop top, and if you’ve been you’ve […]
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Quiz // What should you buy from the new Kate Moss for Topshop collection?
Kate Moss has been collaborating with Topshop since 2007 and it’s been said that her new collection, available end April, most resembles her current eclectic signature wardrobe. Any self respecting girl with a Glastonbury ticket knows she has to have something ‘Kate would wear’ if she plans to work the lo-fi boho luxe thing around […]
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Spring shoe update // Hot mules rule
So everyone got the memo. TRAINERS are happening. Your mum’s wearing New Balance round Sainsburys, your lil’ sis is sticking gems on skate shoe mid-soles and you’re on some kray box-ticking rotation of Stan Smiths, Giuseppe Zanotti high tops and Nike LunerElite Sky Hi Wedges. Okay so far so good. Now let’s throw a fresh […]
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Style Bite // Get your coat: Blanket dressing makes everything better
Atrocious weather fashion newsflash: The pre-fall collections have spoken and wearing a blanket as a look is now OFFICIALLY allowed. Of course, behind closed doors this winter it’s been my default uniform anyway. But now I have sartorial permission to leave the house, and go beyond Londis. What’s that you say? Can it be a slanket? […]
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Style Bite // SS14 couture trends: Why we’re wearing them now
New-school couture is a modern profit-making business. The global market for hyper-luxe nuggets of artisanal brilliance is now more youthful, fast moving and varied than ever. Forget selecting investment pieces for your in-house archive. That’s old news. Buyers who want to stand-up, sit-down or even walk in a straight line are demanding more wearable pieces. […]
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