Kate Evans is a former buyer for Harvey Nichols and Harrods, who has worked in fashion for many years and has excellent taste (and fabulous grey hair.) Regular readers might recognise her from my This...
You’ll always find me in the Scandinavian section at London Design Festival (LDF). Simple clean designs, natural fabrics and neutral colours: Scandi Style is right up my garde.
Spending six years as shopping editor at Elle Decoration magazine under the editorship of Ilse Crawford provided the perfect grounding for style expert Sue Parker. Whose impressive CV also includes a ...
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...
These are some of the women changing the face of the fashion industry. Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey is chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion, Mary Creagh...
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...
At the age of 55, June Mong has decided it’s time for a career change, ‘ I’m still young enough,’ she exclaims, ‘there might even be time for another change…’...
Claire Brewster’s artwork is influenced by the British countryside and nature, ‘ I’m endlessly fascinated by nature,’ says the 50-and-a-half-year-old, ‘where we humans ne...
I’m never naked, I’m never alone, I always have my friends around me. In bed, in the bath, on the beach.
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...
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.
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...
