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Fashion Watch: Discount shopping, online shopping and shoe shopping.
7th April 2010 | 4 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
We all love a bank holiday weekend, and it seems that the major cities have charged out en masse into the countryside for obligatory visits to grandma and spells in country manor spas. But if your patience nor your budget stretches that far, head out instead to Bicester Village in Oxfordshire. Not only is it a Mecca of designer bargains (think Hindmarch, McQueen, Choo, Dior and more) but for the...
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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.
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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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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: 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...





