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Travel: The Rasta House, Salento, Colombia

by Rosie Cowling on May 1, 2013 • No Comments

Banging on the window to get the attention of the driver, we drag our backpacks off the bus onto a bridge four miles downhill from Salento, a small cowboy town in the Colombian department of Quindio. We’re at ‘Camping Monteroca’, a campground offering ‘exotic lodgings’ in a nature reserve on... Read More...

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Style: Bloody Gray Press Day

by Amanda Blake on May 10, 2013 • No Comments

Recently I was fortunate to have the opportunity to attend the Bloody Gray press day at the amazing Sanderson Hotel in London. Designs on show included pieces from Lulu Liu, Nina Lhazani, Gina Melosi, Barbara Allan and Gabriella Ingram. I love press days because they give the opportunity to see what designs are coming for... Read More...

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Style: William Tempest

by Stephanie Parkes on Apr 26, 2013 • No Comments

Designer William Tempest talks about dressing celebrities for the red carpet and reveals how he stays grounded despite running a luxury label. Splitting his week between Dubai and London, William Tempest is living the true jet-setter life-style that comes with being one of Britain’s most celebrated young designers. Famed for his offerings at New York... Read More...

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Style: Inside the Crockett and Jones Factory

by Stephanie Parkes on Apr 16, 2013 • No Comments

Sat waiting for Crockett and Jones’s Sales Director Peter Reed, I glanced around the same showroom where the Jones family received HRH Prince Charles just three months before. Surrounded by rails that homed almost every style and colour of shoe that Crockett and Jones have ever made, the antique feel of the factory suggested it... Read More...

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Style: Sarah Mazza LCF BA Collection

by Natalie Lasance on Apr 13, 2013 • No Comments

Sarah Mazza’s Quest to Individuality was inspired by traditional women’s tattoos from the Philippines and explores the relationship between modern society and its subcultures. It is Mazza’s major project from her BA in Fashion Design Technology: Surface Textile, Knitwear at the London College of Fashion and represents the culmination of three years experimenting with technique,... Read More...

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Arts & Culture: Win 2 Tickets to David Bowie Is at the V&A

by Natalie Lasance on Apr 3, 2013 • No Comments

UPDATE: This competition is closed – we will be announcing the winner shortly If you haven’t managed to snap up tickets to David Bowie Is at the V&A, you’re in luck because we have two to give away to one of our readers! As Nadia covered in her opening night review, this is one exhibition that well... Read More...

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Blog: Converse – Shoes are Boring, Wear Sneakers

by Nadia Ramoul on Mar 28, 2013 • No Comments

Every kid who grew up and turned into a crusty 20-something media type will recall their first pair of Converse; faithful rubber-soled friends getting steadily more battered through rain or shine. Mine were a cheerful burgundy pair that I jazzed up with pink fuzzy laces and drew all over (I was 15 and thought, nay... Read More...

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Arts & Culture: David Bowie Is

by Nadia Ramoul on Mar 22, 2013 • 1 Comment

Unless you’ve been living in complete isolation for the past few months you will have invariably heard the hype surrounding the new David Bowie Is exhibition at the V&A. You may well be thinking that it couldn’t possibly live up to the media’s expectations and scoffing at your friends and family clamouring to buy tickets.... Read More...

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Style: True Religion’s ‘The Art of Jeans’

by Jendella Hallam Benson on Mar 15, 2013 • No Comments

On a chilly Thursday evening the exclusive Rossano Ferretti Hairspa played host to True Religion Brand Jeans’ exhibition, ‘The Art of Jeans’. Tucked away from the bustling crowds of Oxford Street and Regent Street, the luxurious location with its black chandelier light fittings, black carpets and cream walls was a perfect backdrop for the striking... Read More...

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Blog: Secret Supper Club

by Natalie Lasance on Mar 14, 2013 • No Comments

On Monday I headed out with my Perth blogger girls Lei Lady Lei and Nadine from Modern Girls in Vintage Pearls to take part in the latest edition of Secret Supper Club in Perth. Secret Supper Club is the brain child of chef Scott Alfonso, who along with a group of other local chefs puts on... Read More...

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Style: Alexander Wang for Balenciaga AW13

by Natalie Lasance on Mar 1, 2013 • No Comments

With the gaze of the world on him Thursday, Alexander Wang followed in Raf Simons’ footsteps and showed his critics that a minimalist young streetwear designer can breathe life into one of Paris’s most venerable couture houses. The collection of classic, tailored pieces has received a warm welcome, with the New York Times proclaiming that Balenciaga is, “in... Read More...

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Style: Big Fashion Week Adventure

by Nadia Ramoul on Feb 25, 2013 • No Comments

Maddeningly coinciding with the half term holidays, Fashion Week hits London like a luminous bomb. It mushrooms over the city as the streets fill with the colourful, fierce and ludicrously heeled. They land like glamourous aliens, supping on espressos and peering over neon shades, mixing jarringly with bemused families on day trips. Narrowly, they miss... Read More...

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Style: Haizhen Wang at London Fashion Week – Fifth element gets some AW13 urban realness

by Caner Daywood on Feb 21, 2013 • No Comments

Walking around Somerset House during London Fashion Week can make even the most humble fashionista feel like they possess Rihanna-esque stardom with the constant throngs of picture-taking paps, street-style bloggers and journalists crowding the place. So walking to the last show at the BFC Show Space for Haizhen Wang’s AW13 collection was like approaching... Read More...