It’s time to get vivacious as this season is awash with bold brights and vivid hues. Yes, loud and proud colour block combinations make for a dynamic, confident look this summer. Colour blocking gives daywear a bold dynamism and adds a graphic element to any look, transforming simple clothes into high fashion and high impact looks. The spring/summer catwalks were bursting...

The sun is finally shining (well, sort of) and it’s time to start thinking about our spring/summer wardrobes. Right? Well to be honest, after all the excitement of Fashion Week, I just can’t help but look towards the colder months of 2009 and dwell over one particular recurring theme from the season’s shows: the ever rising hemline. It appears that ‘short’...

Wordsmith Lady Gaga recently retorted “it’s never too cold for a leotard.”  It seems the music world may well be in agreement with this statement.  Previously an item worn only by schoolchildren at dance classes, the leotard has been experiencing a revival of late.

The Haute Couture season began in Paris this week with John Galliano’s fantastically outlandish Christian Dior show - drawing on Flemish folklore for inspiration, Galliano‘s tremendous silk dresses were more Milkmaid than Mademoiselle.

It might not be the easiest to wear, warmest or even most versatile item in any wardrobe, but the cape coat has proved to be a massive hit for winter 2008. Why? because they look so damn good. A good, warm coat is an integral part of our winter wardrobe, and if I had to splurge on just one, then I admit - despite my recent cape preaching - it would have to be...

Fast forward four months and visualise yourself heading off to the office in your underwear, strutting your stuff as a space invader, or working the Miami Vice look. Not such a pretty picture, is it?