Forty percent of women’s shoes sold in 2018 were runners, which means these have now become my latest styling ‘weapon of choice’. Over the summer I developed several different styles and worked through their manufacture with a bespoke leather shoemaker during a recent trip to South Africa. Our final design included runners made exclusively from … Continue reading Style Series
Style Never Goes Out of Style
These are some of the most empowering and iconic images over the past half a century. Jean Shrimpton, Jackie Kennedy, Michelle Obama and Megan Markle. They share the same characteristics: bare arms, minimal accessorising, block colouring and arms by their sides. Each woman is making a statement about their relationships to their bodies and their … Continue reading Style Never Goes Out of Style
The Harmony of Contrasts
Based on its Latin origins, the term ‘piano’ is half a word. The other half being ‘forte’. The term, piano e forte, is the full name of what we know today as the piano and was first used in the 1700’s. The term literally means soft - loud and was devised to contrast the graduation … Continue reading The Harmony of Contrasts
Rock the Frock
I recently started a designer label. It’s my own. I did it because nothing on the racks these days seemed to work for me. I also like the concept of my style over someone else’s fashion. Style is about expressing who I am. Fashion is about someone telling me who I am. And that’s never … Continue reading Rock the Frock
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