Inspiration for every day, from the latest must-see films and exhibitions, books to read and lovely interiors, to creative women at work and their personal stories.
The largest retrospective of Bridget Riley’s paintings comes to London this autumn, fresh from National Galleries Scotland. Riley is now 88-years-old and this is seven decades of work by one of ...
Diversity in fashion is a conversation that I’ve been involved in for many years. As a part-time senior lecturer in Fashion Journalism, I contributed to several research projects at university ̵...
Midlife is hectic and demanding. One of my aims since returning from Italy in July, has been to try to bring the holiday vibe into everyday life.
Populations are ageing across the globe and to help work out what we are all doing with our mid-to-late lives, we’re launching a new That’s Not My Age series called No Time To Retire. The ...
Oxfam’s new initiative: Second-Hand September is a brilliant idea. The UK has a throwaway fashion problem – it is estimated that £140m worth of clothing goes to landfill each year, and ...
Here’s a true story with a happy outcome. The artist, activist and children’s author Faith Ringgold is having a solo retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, her first in Europe.
Whatever our take on fashion, fundamentally we all have a connection with clothes because we all wear them. Sewing literally touches our daily lives.
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love the documentary by Nick Broomfield highlights the perils of becoming an artist’s muse. Particularly during the era of free love.
The recent growth in popularity of houseplants is proof of the cyclical nature of trends; all those succulent-strewn Insta posts remind me of growing up in the 1970s, when my parents filled the...
Frank Bowling is 85, he now paints sitting down with the help of assistants. ‘I can see more of what’s happening and use these nimble people, my new painting tools, to do more of what I want to ha...
Even though we live in an ageing society, old age is treated like a problem. We are living longer, and yet, ageist attitudes prevail.
Since the weather has gotten warmer, I have started taking my mother to our local park. She can no longer see well enough to read, and we have exhausted our conversation reservoir, so I have be...
