Stealth Style
Life isn’t all La La Land as we know (hooray for Emma Stone at the BAFTAs); the sunny yellow, summer dress is all very well but often style is about being stealth-y. The pared-down, easy to wear...
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An exhibition about northern style
A new exhibition at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool is one of my must-sees early this year (it’s on until 19 March). North: Identity, Photography, Fashion includes the photographs of Shirley Baker...
Style Inspiration: Walking with Peter Lindbergh
Big coats, flat shoes and beautiful black and white photography. Finally got my hands on a copy of the latest issue of Italian Vogue and am trying to Fika things up today; plenty of coffee and this go...
It’s about style not age
If you’ve spent this week employing a much-needed digital detox you might just have missed a rather uplifting online sensation. When the New York Times published a feature entitled ‘Don’t Dress ...
Getting sorted: my wardrobe workout with a style consultant
As research for my new book (or what I’m now referring to as the Difficult Second Album) and part of a more general desire to sort my shit out, I did something I’ve never done before. Arra...
Ageless Style: Daphne Selfe for Me+Em
Daphne Selfe is a darling. Whenever we meet she’s warm, charming and full of life.
Hands that have lived: Karen Walker & Advanced Style collaborate
My 52-year-old hands have their fair share of wrinkles, veins and age spots. I know I probably should have taken more care of them (years of cycling without sun screen hasn’t helped) but they ar...
Easy summer style: the kimono jacket
First off, let’s get the back end of a bus jokes out of the way. Spot the difference: That’s Not My Age or the rear end of the number 68?
Style Inspiration: Ellen von Unwerth in the Marina Rinaldi campaign
Ace photographer Ellen von Unwerth has leapt into the new Marina Rinaldi campaign alongside model Alessandra Garcia Lorido. Jumping around on set was a technique first used by Richard Avedon in the 19...
Sophie Fontanel a new French Style Heroine and over-40 Instagrammers in Vogue
Women over-40 on Instagram, it’s ‘a thing’. First I get a mention in the Telegraph’s The grown-up Instagram style stars you need to know, then the Ageless Style issue of Britis...
Insta-style grows up! And more khaki malarkey
The Telegraph’s Stella magazine has a feature on ‘The grown-up Instagram style stars you need to know’ the ‘over-35 Instagram stars blazing a trail for our generation,’ a...
Advanced Style: Older & Wiser an interview with Ari Seth Cohen
There are two reasons I started blogging, in 2008. The first was that not long after I’d left a job as fashion editor on a glossy magazine, the internet became A Thing.
We’ll Always Have Paris: an author’s French Style Fail
‘We’ll Always Have Paris‘ is the ace, new book by Emma Beddington the author of the brilliant Belgian Waffling blog; it’s a wry, poignant and informative memoir – I’...
The grown-up style tribes
I’ve always been fascinated by Style Tribes; from the punks of my teenage years to the women of Advanced Style. I do think it’s human nature to identify with others – with people who...
Talking Ageless Style at Bath in Fashion
The sandy colour of this gorgeous suede coat reminds me of the beautiful limestone buildings in Bath. No doubt I’ll be Instagramming the heck out of the Royal Crescent when I’m there next ...
Style at Fifty and the years beyond
There are many ways to be FAB (Fifty and Beyond). Many style choices.
Style inspiration: Shirin Guild in Archivist magazine
I’ve never really been one for voluminous, cross-cultural dressing – the kind of thing you find at the back of the third floor at Liberty – but this wonderful Shirin Guild shoot fo...
Ageless Style: Winser London’s winning formula
Kim Winser is onto a winning formula. I knew that when the founder and CEO of Winser London talked me through her inaugural online collection three years ago.
Join me on the Ageless Style Tour
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to be on the road. Roving around the British Isles in collaboration with Great British brand Hobbs.
Style for the coming year and Hygge Chic
When the Guardian asked me for some grown-up style resolutions for 2016, these were informed by old rather than new pledges. Go on, as you mean to go on.
Style inspiration from New York
Now seems like a good time to post more lovely photos from the Style Forever New York launch party. Taken by Denton Taylor, the pictures show some of New York’s finest and I’m delighted th...
Style made simple
Sometimes it’s the simple things…like this white cotton shirt layered over a stripy Breton top in January’s edition of Vogue. Sling on a bit of bling, add some stars to the st...
Style Forever New York Party
Don’t be fooled by this photograph of me and Accidental Icon Lyn Slater stylin’ it out in black and white, the New York launch party was a FABulously colourful affair. Lots of wonderful gu...
Style Forever New York
Blimey. I’ve spent the last few days running around New York like a blue-arsed fly (one of my dad’s favourite expressions); the Health app on my iPhone doesn’t know what’s hit ...