Style Profile: Prue Leith
The Great British Bake Off judge and cookbook author Prue Leith has a bold, maximalist aesthetic, with a penchant for oversized necklaces and show-stopping specs. Balancing her role on Bake Off, alo...
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.
How to wear a skirt when you don’t wear skirts much
The way to subtly introduce a new style or silhouette into your wardrobe is to surround it with much-loved, old favourites. Not being much of a skirt-wearer myself (this is the first time I’ve w...
How to make workwear work for you
Still working the workwear – with added enthusiasm now that I know Cate Blanchett is on-board. Having dismissed dungarees, I’ve moved on to cargo pants.
What Women Wear at London Design Festival: the accessories edit
From statement bags to cocktail sneakers, a quick whizz round London Design Festival illustrated the game-changing qualities of carefully chosen accessories. The general vibe was cool and uncluttered...
Glenn Close for Empire magazine
Glenn Close looking strong and stylish (and apparently rocking out to Janis Joplin) in the latest issue of Empire magazine has just made my week. I’m off to see The Wife this evening, the film ...
Is this the visibility age?
Older models and muses are seasoning the catwalks for spring/summer 2019 beautifully (Milan Fashion Week has just ended, Paris is getting started). Last night, Jane Birkin sang Baby Alone in B...
What Women Wear at London Design Festival
With London Fashion Week and London Design Festival running back to back, it’s been seven days of Super Style. I popped down to LDF to check out what women of style and substance were wearing.
What Women Wear: Tracey Neuls
Award-winning footwear designer Tracey Neuls shuns catwalk trends in favour of doing her own thing. Something that she’s been working on since the age of nine, when using two cereal boxes...
Am I too old for dungarees?
One thing I have pondered over the last few seasons is this: could my love of a good jumpsuit transfer to a fondness for dungarees? Same workwear family, less fabric.
Worth a look: John Lewis & Partners new womenswear collection
The new ‘John Lewis & Partners’ womenswear collection launched this week, and it’s chic, colourful and spot on for autumn. Meanwhile, the larger John Lewis/Waitrose rebrand was accompani...
Style-spiration: the over-50 Instagram stars you need to know
Style is not something that switches off beyond a certain age – as the explosion of social media over the last decade has so brilliantly shown. The rise and rise of older Instagrammers is inspir...
How to wear zebra stripes (Scandi Style)
Never an excessive dress-wearer, I have excelled myself this summer. This revised view of frocks is thanks largely to the Great Heatwave of 2018 and also to the abundance of shirt dresses of a certai...
