Carli Humphries

Pride of London: The highs and shows of London Fashion Week.

25th February 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

There’s nothing like a Burberry show to make you feel all warm and fuzzy about our fashionable yet freezing capital. Christopher Bailey et al at the British label kept it in the country for another fashion week, a move that kept London nicely on the high of September’s fashion week, where London was, for once, the place to be.
For once, I found that I could have written pretty positive things...

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Baftas 2010: red carpet hits and misses.

24th February 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

London really is the fashionable place to be this week! Not only are we deep into London Fashion Week (top faves so far: Erdem and Aquascutum, watch this space for reviews!) but Sunday night saw the pre-Oscar film showdown, hosted as usual by Jonathan Ross at the Royal Opera House. I was particularly glad that Colin Firth won for the beautifully shot A Single Man, and loved Vanessa Redgrave getting...

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The New York Report: The Best Bits.

19th February 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

Ah New York. The city of fashion, grooming and Anna Wintour. New York Fashion Week always has the nonchalant glamour of the Sex and the City girls: you’ll find something in one of its many guises to fall in love with. Editors, bloggers and fashionistas may have been up against more than they bargained for trying to get even get into the city (deep in snow and, according to almost...

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Fashion Moments: The true talents of Alexander McQueen.

12th February 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

It was with shock and sadness that yesterday fashion and news websites around the world broke the news of Alexander McQueen’s death. As a McQueen fan since becoming interested in the glossy magazines in my teens, the poignant fact that we will no longer have his extraordinary talent or his rebellious, boundary-pushing imagination on our catwalks is truly tragic. But whilst this morning the news of his death has turned...

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Fashion Watch: The week’s news so far.

4th February 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this

With awards season well underway now, and the Oscar anticipation at fever-pitch after the nominations were announced earlier this week, the fashion world has turned into a panel of Project Runway judges, critiquing red carpet dresses with sharp claws and piercing eyes. So while you can all look forward to my various (not quite) acerbic red carpet comments as the BAFTAS and the Oscars approach, I have some more conventional...

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Red Carpet frocks and shocks at the Golden Globes

18th January 2010 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this

Darn that American time difference. However much I’d like to sit up all night and watch the red carpet pictures roll in as they happen, I have to sleep sometime. So, bleary-eyed and fuzzy-headed early this morning I was up on the blogs, finding the best pictures of the Golden Globes red carpet guys and gals to bring to you early birds who can’t wait for them to appear in...

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Fashion News Watch: New Year’s Honours and New Season Bags.

8th January 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Aren’t we all so glad it’s now getting nicely into the New Year and there is actual news around? By December 31st we’re all getting a little tired of retrospectives (even though half of us online are guilty of writing them) and we want news! Let’s find the Sex and the City 2 trailer! Someone must have a new diffusion line out! Well luckily the celebrities and Fashionable People have...

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Fashion Watch: who’ll be hot in 2010.

21st December 2009 | 0 comments | 3 people like this

We all know who was hot in 2009. Christopher Bailey brought Burberry back for a triumphant return to the London catwalks, and finished the year by winning Designer of the Year at the BFAs and getting himself an MBE. We were all waiting to see how Rihanna would make Chris Brown pay: apparently by wearing a collection of killer high-fashion outfits and attending all the hottest shows on the fashion...

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The British Fashion Awards 2009.

14th December 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

The bar is always set higher than usual for any awards to do with the fashion industry. We may be able to forgive a TV starlet turning up to the BAFTAS in badly concocted chiffon, but we want to see fashion’s brightest luminaries in top sartorial form – after all, if they’re designing the clothes, then they should be able to dress themselves, no?
Luckily then, Britain’s both rising and legendary...

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The most surprising fashion icons of 2009.

9th December 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

Yes we know they’re everywhere – the lists of what was hot and what was definitely not in 2009. But it’s December, my mind has turned to thoughts of mince pies and festive frocks and so unless you all want to read about my wardrobe dilemmas then this is what you get. But we’re setting the bar a little higher for this list: it is not just for the predictable...

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