A lifetime achievement award for Joan Bakewell
On Sunday, Joan Bakewell, 86, will receive the BAFTA Television Fellowship Award for a lifetime’s contribution to broadcasting. Often name-checked as the ultimate role model for women in the med...
Easy ways to feel more confident about your style
Personal style is a work in progress. I know, I’ve been working on mine for years.
Don’t miss Magdalene Odundo ‘The Journey of Things’ at the Hepworth Wakefield
I’m due a trip up north and hoping that there’ll be time to cross the Pennines and visit friends in Wakefield. As well as a walk in the glorious Yorkshire Sculpture Park, world-reno...
What Women Wear: Teresa Colonett
Teresa Colnett is a curator at the Fashion and Textiles Museum in London. We’ve met several times at exhibition openings and talks and I’ve always admired her singular style and eye for go...
Wardrobe workout: making the seasonal switchover
These images reminded me how useful it is to have a wardrobe switchover every season. They’re of 43-year-old model Georgina Grenville and they can be found in Toast’s spring look bo...
Who made my clothes?
It’s still Fashion Revolution Week. After the panel discussion at the V&A, I bumped into Bumni a stylist friend who always wears a mixture of small independent designers and carefully chosen...
It’s Fashion Revolution Week
These are some of the women changing the face of the fashion industry. Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey is chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion, Mary Creagh...
Bring on the blazer
Unseasonably warm temperatures aside, now feels like the right time to take winter coats to the dry cleaners and bring on the blazer. This sartorial shift pleases me, no end.
The Soap Co: caring about people and the planet
Based in East London, with a traditional workshop in the Lake District, The Soap Co. is a beauty brand with a difference.
Trending: spring’s technicolour trouser suits
Caroline Issa admits that she dressed very conservatively in her first career as a management consultant, almost 20-years ago, ‘I had a brown suit, a black suit, a grey suit and a navy su...
Don’t miss: Mary Quant at the V&A
‘Hey luv, Mary’s here!’ was the slogan JC Penney used to attract customers when designer Mary Quant and her collection hit New York in the 1960s, and 50-years later this should be em...
Know Your Seasonal Style: the checked trench coat
Last year I started the ‘Know Your Seasonal Style‘ series, a small edit of the clothes on my radar at a particular time. Rather than pictures of me in a khaki jumpsuit ad inf...
