PUNK’S NOT DEAD!

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May 10 2013, Style In View 

And so for some good news for those who have been left somewhat underwhelmed and uninspired by recent fashion affairs — the nude shoe, virginal all white ensembles, pastels, in other words, the school of thought that heralds K-Mids as its leader. From former Mousketeers flashing underboob, to slebs in studs and spikes snogging at the Metropolitan ball— Sienna Miller and Cara Delevingne if you must play coy and act as if you don’t know exactly whom I’m referring …read more

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BEAUTY IN VIEW: DERMAVIDUALS MOISTURISER AND SERUM

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May 9 2013, Style In View

What We’re Loving This Month: Dermaviduals  High Classic Moisturiser and Vitamin Serum

My grandmother once told me to always buy the best moisturiser you can afford and since the woman had better skin in her 80s than I have in my 20s, I’ve spent a lifetime heeding her words. Through the oily teen years, when aggressive face washes left my sensitive skin looking like I’d had a chemical peel and suddenly cream cheese seemed the only solution, to panic buying …read more

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WELCOME TO THE CANDY SHOP

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May 1 2013, Style In View

If we ignore for a moment the fact that dungarees are in (and the fact that my bum has now, as a direct consequence, grown by three feet and merged with my back) fashion has been touting an inoffensive femininity this season. We’ve seen the return of the 50’s silhouette, low, sensible heeled shoes previously associated with the orthopaedically challenged and now, the ultimate in ‘safe’ fashion: pastels. Pretty, girly, easy to wear, pastels is one of those trends you can use as a fashion prop …read more

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FW13 BEAUTY TREND: MILAN SAYS PUNK

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May 1 2013, Made In Italy

Milan: mecca of the beauty world and pinnacle of direction for cosmetic junkies looking for their cues for the season ahead. If there is one thing the Milan runway always brings us, it is bold, directional beauty looks that will set the standard and provide the marker by which trends for the upcoming season will be judged.

In beauty, while the 1920s, 50s and 60s were celebrated at Bottega Veneta, Dolce & Gabbana and Pucci respectively, this year’s most …read more

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THE LADYLIKE LOW HEEL

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April 27 2013, Pink Bow

The vertiginous heel has fallen — as have we when wearing it, more times than we’d likely care to admit. Really, it’s about time. Having persuaded us that nine inch heels sans the heels are in fact a valid sartorial choice (see Gaga’s weird hoof foot if there’s any confusion as to what I’m referring to), fashion has decided that, for now at least, the heel has reached its peak and a new, more ladylike shaped shoe has taken its place. Welcome the low heel.
Now, if any of you are …read more

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LET YOUR BOOTS DO THE TALKING

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April 26 2013, 2013, Style In View

You can tell a lot about a person by their choice of boots. Dr. Martens and (depending on the decade) you could be expressing allegiance to punk, grunge, or – with the right colour of laces – fascism; Chelsea boots and you’re embracing a style classic, shopping at Topshop and/or a hipster; Timberland boots and you’re either working on a building site or Kanye West; thigh highs in PVC and you’re Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. Isn’t fashion fun?

There’s no need to stop identifying your …read more

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LOVELY IN LINGERIE

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April 19 2013, Style In View

Let’s talk about sex. Ah, thought that might get that attention. Well, let’s not actually, this is a fashion site after all, but more a subject sex adjacent: namely, lingerie and SS13’s trend for vintage glamour.

Let’s face it: we may all extol the importance of wearing good knickers — not least in the event of run ins with buses that your nan would lecture you on, whilst nodding knowingly about ‘good girls’ and pinging her own knicker elastic, which had somehow …read more

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COLOURFUL KICKS

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April 12 2013, Style In View

Seeing as spring has been and gone briefly last month sometime, our post on spring jackets is already redundant, which is somewhat of a speedy turnover, even by fashion’s short attention span. There’s nothing to do now but bundle up, consider the ‘depressing:ahead of the curve’ ratio of wearing AW13’s trends now and look forward to that week of summer we should be seeing sometime in May.

With that in mind, finding an appropriate post subject today was somewhat …read more

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DRESSING UP

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March 28 2013, Style In View

Kate Middleton wears one and it sells out in seconds.

Anne Hathaway wears one and transfixes the world with her anatomy (it’s like they’re watching me).

Jennifer Lawrence wears one and either spectacularly trips or somehow manages to lose the bottom half of it.

Gaga wears one, accessorises by plopping a steak on her head and calls it art.

The dress: it inspires debate, accolade, vitriol and, occasionally, some serious Hathahating.

And with March comes the season of …read more

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MAD FOR THE MANBAG

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March 28 2013, Delialicious Picks

The manbag: once a most unfairly maligned accessory that was reserved for the more, let’s say, sartorially serious gent. ‘Real men’, of the kind of butch masculinity heralded by Yorkie chocolate bars and McCoy crisps, would never be seen with anything so fey and useful , instead preferring to stock their pockets or maybe condescend to use a natty skate backpack, at a push.

Burberry AW13 collection for menBut that would be me showing my age, for in …read more

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