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.

Small Town Style

Small Town Style

I have always wanted to take a road trip through middle America. Due to a disappointing lack of funds, I will have to settle for a make believe fashion trip [...]

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Trends: Head Scarves

Trends: Head Scarves

When

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A Modernist Take On Fashion

A Modernist Take On Fashion

The disparate backgrounds of Modernist designers Andrew Jones and Abdul Koroma make for a compelling team. Working together to make beautiful, modern and curious clothes, the duo have already treaded [...]

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Colour me summer!

Colour me summer!

If countless magazines are to be believed, it seems it may be time for me to wean myself off my standard issue colour palette of neutrals and muted jewel tones [...]

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Glove Love!

Glove Love!

As part of my inherent love for any modern take on ladylike style, the kind of details that recall a time when gentlemen tipped their hats on cobbled streets as [...]

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The Edge of Style!

The Edge of Style!

As ubiquitous as the images from “The Edge of Love” (the upcoming film about poet Dylan Thomas starring Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller) have become, I can’t help but love [...]

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Style buttoned up: The Denim Skirt

Style buttoned up: The Denim Skirt

Recently added to my all-consuming and ever-growing skirt collection/ addiction (depending on your point of view….) is a high waisted, button through pale denim number which I have literally not [...]

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Dress Like a Queen!

Dress Like a Queen!

Its impossible to open a newspaper (or terrible gossip magazine….) at the moment without having to endure a thorough examination of the sartorial decisions of our young royals. Yawn. It’s [...]

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Summer Buys: Old Man Cardigans

Summer Buys: Old Man Cardigans

I am not ashamed to admit that my favourite item of clothing is an ink-stained, moth-eaten, beige grandfather cardigan that I am fairly certain used to belong to to a [...]

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Loafing Around: The Return Of The Loafer

Loafing Around: The Return Of The Loafer

Whenever there is a stampede of vertiginous footwear like those of the current skyscraper climate, you can be sure there is a thoroughly horizontal backlash just around the corner. Not [...]

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Hannah Marshall Breathes New Life In To The Little Black Dress

Hannah Marshall Breathes New Life In To The Little Black Dress

I abandoned the eternal search for the Little Black Dress years ago, getting a little bored with an item of clothing that never seems to have enough going on to [...]

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Tim Walker: Fashion spun from dreams

Tim Walker: Fashion spun from dreams

It is my humble opinion that we use contemporary fashion magazines as modern day storybooks for grown up little girls; an instrument of escapism, aspiration and imagination. The photographic stories [...]

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Summer Beauty: Painted Eyes

Summer Beauty: Painted Eyes

Forget the ubiquitous ‘paint splattered’ prints that are apparently the only thing that will do this summer. There is no fun in wearing somebody else’s painting on a skirt that [...]

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