Links à la Mode 25th February 2010

Project Beyond the Runway
Edited by Fashion Pulse Daily
Reading through the links this week, I realized that fashion week or no fashion week, fashion will most certainly go on! A winter snowstorm couldn’t even slow down New York Fashion Week, and the links below are testament to the wonderful style that exists beyond the runway, such [...]

A Charity Shoppers Guide to Banbury

You might have caught my Charity Shop Guide to Norwich at the end of January. Well this is the second of guides to the places I shop regularly. Banbury in Oxfordshire.

I’ve been frequenting the shops here for well over a year and I’ve witnessed many changes. Initially almost all the shops were the source of [...]

Hidden Gems – STUFF in Croydon

Croydon. Not the most exciting place in the world.
Sorry, if you live there, but it’s really not. I stayed there over London Fashion Week, because one of it’s prime advantages is it’s cheap and only 15 minutes by train to London Victoria.
I really love it when you find amazing things in unexpected places and that’s [...]

London Fashion Week- Estethica – Tara Starlet

By FAR the highlight find of my otherwise not great Saturday was when I stumbled across Tara Starlet in the Estethica Exhibition.

I’d found them online a few days earlier, looking at the Estethica exhibitors. It’s not often you come across a label that so completely meshes with your own likes and I was particularly keen [...]

London Fashion Week – Day 2

Retro Chick is currently poorly and at home under a blanket. Do I hear a chorus of “Aahhhhhs”? No?

Well, my second day at London Fashion Week this season started well, and rapidly went downhill, partly due to my burgeoning disease.
It started well with the Kinder Aggugini show. A collection you can read about here, as [...]

London Fashion Week – Kinder Aggugini A/W 2010

From the minute I took my seat I fell a bit in love with the Kinder Aggugini show as the catwalk was decorated with elaborate gold candlesticks festooned with greenery and gold eagle statuettes.

Kicking off with Kate Bush I did my best to snap pictures from my back row seat as the collection that seemed [...]