Where Vintage meets shabby chic and handmade What A vintage fair with a difference; it’s a complete afternoon out with vintage clothes, pre-loved accessories, shabby chic home furnishings and handmade (in Birmingham) with art stirred in to the mix. The nostalgic mood will also stretch to music and refreshments including coffee and cakes supplied by [...]
Rhinestone Cowgirl has a mission: To travel the world and trawl the internet and find you the loveliest, prettiest, comfiest things for your home. I love finding old stuff that has been trashed and making it look shiny and new, better than ever. I know you will give this unique product product pride of place in [...]
My last day. I decide to skip the hotel breakfast and skip off on my own for a last perfect Italian coffee at Café Passarella, where my Milanese adventure started. I sit under the outside heater with my laptop and wonder why the rest of the patrons are not at work at 9am. It’s still [...]
Adventures in Milan – Day 4Sunday Best Today has always had rain forecast so ‘they’ did not disappoint us. However, I’m one step ahead as I keep the Cathedral, the main tourist attraction (apart from the sport that is Versace shop spotting) for today. We get to the part where the lift takes us up [...]
Gucci 1 Versace 0 Armani 0 Today I met with my friend and the we hit the tourist trail; the church that has ‘The Last Supper’ in it, that we discover we can only book to see by phone, before hand, the castle that has a nice photo exhibition of before and after photos and [...]
Gucci, Gucci, wherefor art thou, Gucci? Not that I need to buy anything from there but it’s just odd that of the hundreds of shops I’ve seen whilst mooching about today, not one is Gucci or Armani or Versace for that matter. Some American designers have a presence and there’s a Vivien Westwood around the [...]
5 ways to brighten up black Hands up who wears black? Every day? Who has black as their fall-back, safe, easy, comfortable colour? For the legions of fans of black there are many reasons to wear it, besides flattery and they are all good ones: black goes with everything…well, almost. Read more of article published [...]
House of Fraser September 20th 2010 I am not in the market for clothes, in fact I rarely am. I have so many and I love them all so I never utter the line ‘I have nothing to wear.’ The fact that most of my clothes are being held hostage 3300 miles away does not [...]
Fashion is not the same thing as style. And being stylish is not just about what you wear. Read article published on Powder Room Graffiti
To me black is a colour. Just like red, blue, yellow, orange, green, purple or white –but a lot darker. Yet many people (women) use it as a staple colour in their wardrobe and base for all their outfits. I’ve just monitored ten women that have walked by me on this unexpectedly sunny July day [...]
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