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
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...
What Women Wear: Chiara Menage
This gorgeous, grey-haired woman is Chiara Menage, the founder of Menage Modern Vintage – an online clothing shop selling collectable vintage and contemporary pre-owned clothes, shoes and acces...
Summer dresses to suit every occasion
Work, weekend, wherever; when maximum Waft Factor is required there’s only one thing for it. Get your frock on.
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up at the V&A
‘Everybody thinks they know Frida, but actually they don’t know her at all,’ Claire Wilcox senior curator at the V&A has said. My Frida knowledge is hazy, I’m not going t...
What Women Wear: Snowden Flood
In another new feature for That’s Not My Age, I’ll be talking to a range of women about their personal style and what they wear. First up, is fabulous Snowden Flood (real name) who designs...
The rise of ageless style: why women over 40 want to look good not young
After making the shift from fashion magazines to freelance and the burgeoning online world in the early noughties, I started blogging as That’s Not My Age nine years ago. Before long, I was networ...
Creative Women: Lucille Lewin on fashion, art and achieving an MA in ceramics at 69
A thirst for knowledge and continual learning is what drives Lucille Lewin. ‘I really hate not learning and wanted a goal,’ the 69-year-old artist tells me in her London studio.
Creative Women at Work: Mouchette Bell returns to modelling in her 50s
One thing really did lead to another for freelance fashion editor/ stylist Mouchette Bell. A guest-lecturing position morphed into modelling the student collections at Graduate Fashion Week, where she...
Creative Women at Work: Lubna Chowdhary, V&A ceramics resident
‘I am always trying to combine ideas and aesthetics from the eastern and western worlds,’ London-based artist Lubna Chowdhary tells me, ‘the eastern influence is a very strong part o...
Creative women at work: designer Charlene Mullen
Textile and home accessories designer Charlene Mullen has a shop in Shoreditch and a new ceramics collection for Royal Doulton to go with her beautiful hand-embroidered cushions (we have a couple boug...
Creative women at work: Amelia Bullmore
Actor Amelia Bullmore has appeared in some of my favourite TV programmes: Coronation Street (Steph Barnes), I’m Alan Partridge (girlfriend Sonja) and Twenty Twelve (Kay Hope) – we’ll...
