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Simply Madonna â

The Truman Brewery, 21 February to 22 March 2009

I have been a Madonna fan for years and years. When I was younger it bordered on obssessional, but has lessened now due to her ill-advised recent collaboration with super …

London Fashion Week: Day Five

Josh Goot, Avsh Alom Gur and Bora Aksu, 24 February 2009

Today was a pleasant day, as for the first time all week, our tickets and the show times correlated perfectly, meaning that the cloud of anxiety that descends as shows …

London Fashion Week: Day Four

Olivia Rubin, Maria Grachvogel and William Tempest, 23 February 2009

There are three venues at London Fashion Week, the main tent, where the official on-schedule shows take place, the Vauxhall Fashion Scout venue that champions newer designers and On|Off fashion, …

London Fashion Week: Day Three

Eley Kishimoto, Jaeger London and PPQ A/W 09, 22 February 2009

Today was a good day.
First up was the Eley Kishimoto show, where the husband and wife design team took to the skies, with the humble air hostess being the inspiration …

London Fashion Week: Day Two

Margaret Howell and Qasimi A/W 09, 21st february 2009

It’s funny seeing the different crowds the different shows draw. The morning started off at the Margaret Howell studio, where the British establishment of fashion journalists turned out to see …

London Fashion Week: Day One

Noir and Ashish A/W 09, 20th February 2009

The day started off with London transport, as usual, ruining my life. The district line was delayed/suspended/just took bloody ages, meaning that I missed the first show I intended on …

Oxfam Boutiques

Stylish and Caring, London

In recent years, the Oxfam brand has had a brilliant image make over, no longer does it conjure up the image of dowdy, old lady smelling charity shops, only for …

Vibe Harsløf Interview

Jewellery Designer, From Denmark

Vibe Harsløf is a jewellery designer from Copenhagen and has designed collections for Paul Smith in the past and launched her own collection in October 2008. Her philosophy is to …

London Fashion Week Preview

London Fashion Week, 20th - 25th February 2009

We’re very excited, there’s only four days to go until Friday 20th February – the start of London Fashion Week! The Autumn/Winter ‘09 season kicked off on Friday 13th in …

Frock Me!

Vintage Fashion Fair, Chelsea

We just wanted to draw your attention to the brilliant Frock Me! vintage fair, on this Sunday, 15th February in Chelsea Town Hall:

We’ll be popping down, hope to see you …

Bare Thread by Kids Company

Charity Fashion Label

Kids Company is a charity founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh and provides practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children and young people.
They have many initiatives to raise money for …

Swedish Fashion Exhibition

Fashion and Textile Museum, 6th February - 17th May 2009

I say Sweden, you say…Ikea? ABBA? Ulrika Johnsson? Great fashion design might not be one of the first things that pops into your head – but this will change once …

The Obligitary Valentine’s Post

Valentine's Gifts

It may be somewhat controversial but I love Valentine’s Day. Partly because I’m an any excuse for a party kind of girl and partly because it totally brings out the …

Romina Karamanea Interview

Fashion Designer

Greek fashion designer and Central St Martins graduate Romina Karamanea is showing as part of on|off at this season’s fashion week. Her clean cut Balenciaga inspired designs really appealed to …

Julia Smith Interview

Fashion Designer

Emerging fashion designer Julia Smith is showing at this season’s London Fashion Week with her ethically produced, completely on trend and interesting designs. She has also created a ‘Made in …

Attention Vintage Lovers!

London & Online events

Here are some treats for you:

Today sees the launch of QueensOfVintage.com – brought to us by the people that run another favourite site of ours, greenmystyle.com, , queens of vintage …

Hussein Chalayan exhibition

Design Museum, 22 January - 17 May 2009

For the next four months you can head down to the Design Museum in London and acquaint yourself with the work of fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, pictured below at his …

Pondicherry – Nirvana Boutique

eBay shops

As we all know, eBay is a brilliant place to find excellent and unique gifts. One shop that has an outlet on the site and provides such items is Pondicherry. …

Minna Hepburn Interview

Fashion Designer

Now based in London, Finnish designer Minna Hepburn is showing her A/W 09 collection as part of Esthetica, the ethical branch of London Fashion Week. Her beautiful and delicate designs …

atelier-mayer.com launch

Vintage Fashion, Mark's Club

The most glamorous way of recycling clothes is buying vintage. Last week atelier-mayer.com was launched by luxury fashion PR, Carmen Haid, and fashion journalist, Alice Kodell, and it is a …