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London Fashion Week SS10: Kinder Aggugini

If Alice from Alice in Wonderland were ever to meet Coco Chanel then she may have ended up looking somewhat like Kinder’s creations. An unusual snakeskin print took centre stage alongside monochrome and ladylike tweeds. This was both...

 

London Fashion Week SS10: Aminaka Wilmont

Tight, tight and super tight. Aminaka Wilmont went beyond body con and created a whole new level of cling. Yes there was Lycra, yet the cuts were short and tight but no it wasn’t slutty, instead it was beautiful and feminine. In a collection...

 

London Fashion Week SS10: Bora Aksu

This collection was inspired by the Oscar Wilde story ‘The Happy Prince’ and like the story I loved it. I agree that Bora Aksu is not for everyone, his designs are whimsical, incredibly girly and at times a little over the top....

 

How Darphin saved my skin

So a luxury beauty brand, gets in touch and offers you a skin scanning treatment, what do you say? “When, where, can I come today?” Of course. This is exactly what I did and ended up at Darphin headquarters to have my skin scanned....

 

New fragrance from Jo Malone: Vanilla & Anise

There are some things which make a girl go weak at the knees, and the sight of a Jo Malone carrier bag is one of them. What is it about the vanilla packaging with the black scented tissue paper and ribbon tied boxes that gets us all excited?...

 

The Clothes Show comes to London

It may have taken numerous forms of transport to get there, but I managed it. I did note another disgruntled Clothes Show-er moaning that a trip to the Birmingham one would have been quicker, and sadly they were right. But back to the show,...

 

Scarlett Johansson is the new face of Mango

First the Spanish brand nabs Daisy Lowe and now they’ve signed Scarlett for the Autumn/Winter 09 campaign. Fresh from her adverts for Dolce & Gabbana where she posed as a modern Marilyn, she is now looking grungier but of course...