Lesley Manville is getting on with it
Why hasn’t Lesley Manville been featured on That’s Not My Age before? I have no answers.
Style For All Ages
Style inspiration for women of all ages – from fashion expert, journalist and author Alyson Walsh. Advice on how to feel chic, comfortable and confident in your clothes, interviews with women of style and substance and all the latest fashion news.
In praise of the summer flatform shoe
The low wedge or flatform has been one of the breakthrough styles of the last decade, elegantly bridging the gap between structured shoes and trainers. ‘Flatforms have elevated the idea o...
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.
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...
It’s Fashion Revolution Week
These are some of the women changing the face of the fashion industry. Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey, a former social worker, is chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ethics and Sustainabilit...
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.
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...
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...
Flat shoes forever: why I won’t stop wearing comfy shoes and sneakers
Grazia magazine recently featured an article headed ‘Brace yourself for life post-trainers’, explaining that sneakers are over and high fashion has moved on. According to the Sunday...
Closet Conundrum – how do you know what to keep and what to chuck?
I’ve held onto these bootcut needlecords since the 1990s – and that’s because I knew I’d wear them again. Obviously over time, silhouettes and shapes change, but patience and a...
