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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Help, I’m wearing a fleece!
First chic hiking boots, now a fancy fleece. I’ve always liked my fashion with a side order of functionality.
What to wear right now: a cardigan (or two)
The cardigan has a military background. Named after the Seventh Earl of Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell (1797-1868) who wore a knitted wool, collarless jacket to lead the Light Brigade at the Battle ...
Robin Wright, giving back
Well-known for her role as Claire Underwood in House Of Cards (and her presidential style), Robin Wright is also the co-founder of a socially-conscious clothing range. Having spent over a decade visit...
What Women Wear: Deborah Thomas
After discovering boxes of old, embossed A4-sized leather swatches abandoned in the corridors of their soon-to-be-closed Northampton tannery, Deborah Thomas decided to salvage her family’s leath...
