Articles by: Katy Smail
a Illustration graduate from Edinburgh College of Art in 2007, and has spent the past year in a world of words, pictures, fashion and stories. She works as a freelance fashion writer, while her illustrations 'like candyfloss sticking to wind blown lips' are found in publications like 'The Talent' and 'Curvy Annual 08', and are sold in 'Luna and Curious', Brick Lane, London.

Try Something Different: Smudged Style

Try Something Different: Smudged Style

Although the perennial make-up look for summer is, of course, ‘fresh-faced’ beauty I’d like to venture a painterly alternative. Wild, I know, but as anyone who has actually ventured out [...]

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Designer Profile: Steve J and Yoni P

Designer Profile: Steve J and Yoni P

Who:

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The White Dress. A Summer Staple.

The White Dress. A Summer Staple.

Seeing this photograph of Kirsten Dunst in this white dress made me think 3 things: 1. Thank goodness Kirsten is back running around town in pretty, pretty things

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High Time For High-Waisted Shorts!

High Time For High-Waisted Shorts!

I am, and always have been, a dress girl through and through. The devotion to flippy skirts and girly dresses that carries me through dreary winters in a haze of [...]

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The Vintage Lace Dress

The Vintage Lace Dress

Having already written about, and fallen achingly and unashamedly in love with, the A/W lace trend way back in February, it is with a gleeful (and slightly territorial) heart that [...]

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Trends: On the fringe

Trends: On the fringe

For some time now, I have been trying to curb a creeping desire to adorn myself in fringing. Not so ridiculous as it sounds, really, when you consider that it [...]

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Love Your Style: Lykke Li

Love Your Style: Lykke Li

Not one to adopt “style icons” from the celebrity realm I have to confess to a guilty fascination with the sartorial choices of Swedish singer

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Lust of the week: Topshop Floral Print Corset

Lust of the week: Topshop Floral Print Corset

I try and I try and I try to be good and save my pennies but Topshop is a bad place. A bad, bad place that wants to see me [...]

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Peach vs Coral. You Decide?

Peach vs Coral. You Decide?

Many admiring words have been spoken, of late, of the countless joys that coral can cast over one’s life. Words that I entirely agree with (perhaps I wrote them?) and, [...]

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Ankle Socks. A Summer Staple!

Ankle Socks. A Summer Staple!

Footwear, legwear and general leg exposure is always a bit of a tricky area when the sun bestows it’s gentle rays on pins as white as mine are. All sunkissed [...]

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Trends: Reluctant Debutante

Trends: Reluctant Debutante

An aura of deconstructed grandeur seems to be encircling the world of fashion at the moment. From the A/W08 collections of Balenciaga and Prada to the Cecil Beaton influence at [...]

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Trends: Addicted to Accessories!

Trends: Addicted to Accessories!

I have, I must admit, a bit of a jewelry addiction. I’m like a cat with a little bell around my neck – my friends can always tell exactly where [...]

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Reader Q&A: What is going to be the trend for sunglasses this season?

Reader Q&A: What is going to be the trend for sunglasses this season?

I have a question. What is going to be the trend for sunglasses this summer and early Fall? –

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