September 2009

Stop Press: Lulu Guinness Feeds Cake to Fashion Bloggers

16 September 2009

Yesterday afternoon I dragged myself into rain sodden London for a rather pleasant afternoon tea at the Met Bar with 7 other Fashion Bloggers. Lulu Guinness is embracing this new exciting world of social media and blogging in a way that makes me wish all designers were as switched on and would treat me to [...]

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Reese Witherspoon Perfume – We Have a Winner!

15 September 2009

Well, there were a grand total of 402 entries for the Reese Witherspoon Avon fragrance competition in the end, including all the additional entries, and each one of those went into a spreadsheet. I muddled them all up and then used Random.org to generate a number between 1-402, and the winner of the full size [...]

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What are you Wearing? Wedding Number One….

14 September 2009

Wedding number one of the two I am attending in September was an old school friend who I’ve known for 20 years. The wedding itself was on the Friday whilst the Reception took the form of a beer festival and barbeque in a village hall on the Saturday. The invitation instructed “dress to impress” so [...]

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Style vs Fashion – Twitter speaks

10 September 2009

This year, for the first time, I have Press Accreditation at London Fashion Week. It’s very likely that I will simply check out the exhibition, and, part of the reason for this, is that I’ve been too filled with fear to approach anyone for tickets to Catwalk shows. I wondered about the reason for my [...]

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Make Do and Mend….

9 September 2009

This month the nation remembers 70 years since the start of World War II, with all the subsequent privations that impressed on the British public. The Make Do and Mend ethos that prevailed during the war still has a lot to teach us now. Credit crunch or no credit crunch being wasteful and careless with [...]