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...
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...
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...
‘I’ve recently been guest lecturing on a degree course at UCA and had to do my CV for the first time in decades,’ says Nadira V Persaud who has been a make-up artist for almos...
Sheenagh Day is a bloody brilliant woman. The successful geneticist – with a BSc in Genetics from Leeds University and a Masters in Human Genetics from Sarah Lawrence College in New York ...
While the media obsesses over Beyonce’s tour-drobe, I’m digging Siouxsie’s onstage look. After 10 years away from the limelight, the punk singer is playing live again.
Maria Chenoweth has worked in charity retail since she left school. Now aged 54 and the CEO of Traid, together with designer and entrepreneur Wayne Hemingway, she’s spearheading a new con...
If you’re a fan of BBC2’s Secrets of the Museum, the series filmed behind the scenes at the V&A, then you will recognise my latest podcast guest. Dr Christine Checinska is the S...
Jannine Newman is founder of The Assembly Market, a pop-up fashion and interiors event in London. Having worked as an interior designer for many years, on turning 50, Jannine decided to follow ...
When I recorded the podcast episode with Lucinda Chambers she was incredibly gracious and warm and welcomed us into her home. Chez Chambers is as super-chic and stripey as you would imagine; an...
Hooray! The That’s Not My Age podcast is back (after a longer than intended, six-month hiatus) with a special Christmas episode.
It’s always good to see a confident woman of around-about-my-age proving that style doesn’t have a sell-by date. And I can relate to these Vogue images because the model looks natur...