Style & substance: Claudine Rousseau Dean of Design & Technology at London College of Fashion
During London Fashion Week, Claudine Rousseau popped up on my TV screen. I was channel-hopping and clicked over to the BBC News.
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Learning to love grey hair at 62
Debra Hepburn is a 62-year-old slow fashion-lover. From the middle of the Warwickshire countryside, she founded the website Young British Designers (YBD) in 2010 with her husband Julian Whitehe...
Quote of the week: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on the power of fashion
Stitched Back Together is a wonderful feature in Harper’s Bazaar May issue written by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The British-Iranian journalist emphasizes the relationship between ...
Vintage seller Michelle Mason shares her advice on buying and styling second-hand homewares
It’s a small world. I hadn’t realised that my old friend Michelle Mason actually went to school with Carolyn Denham the founder of Merchant & Mills until after I’d publi...
Women whose style we admire: Chioma Nnadi (the new head of British Vogue)
It always takes a few months for a new editor to make their mark on a magazine – while deadlines are a lot closer to publication these days (because of online and the quest for newness) &...
Creative Women at Work: Carolyn Denham, the maker-designer behind Merchant & Mills
‘An antidote to modern life.’ That’s how Carolyn Denham, 59, describes the haberdashery business that’s captured the zeitgeist with its workwear-inspired clothing patterns, its gorgeous...
If you like wearing brooches you need to know about Audra Daws-Knowles
Small business owner and vintage brooch-seller, 55 year-old Audra Dawes-Knowles, is a woman of impeccable style. We met just before Christmas at the Canopy Market in Kings Cross, where I was in...
Highlights from the inaugural TNMA Style Series event
Organising a series of panel discussions for subscribers and friends of That’s Not My Age has been on my to-do list for some time. So, I was delighted by the turn-out for the inaugural St...
The art of wearing bold print with Rene Macdonald, founder of award-winning fashion label Lisou London
If you’re looking for style and substance, Rene Macdonald is your woman. Recently awarded Fashion Brand of the Year by W magazine, her label Lisou London has skyrocketed since its launch in 2018...
Women Whose Style We Admire: Entrepreneur Isabelle Fish
This month, I’m pleased to share a lovely guest feature from my journalist friend and That’s Not My Age contributor, Alexia Economou. At London Design Festival last year, I was introduced ...
Late summer layering: style advice from Studio Wylder founder & designer Natasha Kelly
After years of working in the corporate fashion world, Natasha Kelly decided to go back to her roots. Having studied fashion design at Bournemouth (now Arts University Bournemouth), she ...
Meet Marie Remy the woman behind The French Workwear Company
My obsession with second-hand workwear led me to Marie Remy, 52, the founder of The French Workwear Company. She’s French, she loves workwear, she’s cool as.