Fashion
New service puts fashion at your fingertips
Style mavens can revolutionise their shopping sprees from today with the launch of Empora.com, a brand new fashion service that allows users to shop by style.
Embrace 1950’s glamour this summer
Go for a 50s inspired look this season with Glamour Bunny, a new boutique brand which is encouraging women of the nation to explore their seductive side with timeless, ‘must-have’ dresses.
MTV Streetmuse launches high summer collection
Following the huge success of MTV Streetmuse, (a new range of street-smart menswear that launched in Zara stores in March 2009) MTV introduces its high summer offering of limited edition T-shirts, for style conscious music lovers.
Original design leads the way at French Connection
French Connection has delivered another truly original, beautifully unique collection for Autumn 2009. Indulge in their ethos where trends are obsolete and original design rules, become free to create your own style from French Connection’s coveted wardrobe.
Don’t go topless, go tan-through
Brits venturing beyond the Eurozone this summer can get their all-over tan without breaking any decency laws. With the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advising people to research the laws of their holiday destination before they travel, UK swimwear designer Kiniki.com is encouraging people to turn to tan-through swimsuits and wraps to ensure not too much skin is on display.
Statement glamour
From pretty flirty pieces reminiscent of the 1950s to ultra glamorous floor length gowns and feminine shift dresses and jackets, Ian Stuart London’s second collection promises to deliver alluring pieces that take glamour and beauty to new levels.
Bold buying brings success to Edinburgh boutique
Edinburgh fashion boutique Frontiers is defying the credit crunch by buying bold, courageous collections - proving to be a hit with its customers. Frontiers owner and knitwear designer Jane Forbes’ has recognised a growing trend towards buying ‘signature pieces’ that cannot be found on every high street.
Flabby tums and builders bums top ‘Fashion Crimes’ poll
Call the fashion police: tubby tummies, muffin sides and builders’ bums have topped a poll of the UK’s worst ever crimes against fashion. The new research, commissioned by Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex, revealed that letting your wobbly bits hang out is considered the worst ever fashion offence, with flabby midriffs on show coming in at number one, as voted by six in ten Brits.
Designer kids leave parents behind in fashion stakes
Credit crunched parents are cutting back on their own clothes spending in order to buy their brand conscious children the latest designer fashions.
Fashion and grooming at the click of a button
my-wardrobe.com, one of the UK’s leading online fashion retailers has announced its debut partnership with ClarinsMen. With over 50 years experience as beauty and skincare specialists, Clarins launched a range of products just for men in 2002, specifically designed with men’s skin requirements in mind.
Cosmopolitan style for summer
British ‘staycationers’ will need to put on a brave face as well as some stylish swimwear if they want to recreate Bondi in Blackpool and Cannes in Cleethorpes this summer.
Just the ticket for fashionable travellers
Fabulous fashion footwear brand, CocoRose London’s foldable flat shoes are rapidly becoming just the ticket for women travellers in 2009. Popping a pair of these essential travelling companions into the suitcase or hand luggage is becoming second nature for women who have previously suffered from having to hobble around the airport in heels, or rubbed their feet raw in resort.
A gem of a treasure hunt in Belgravia
In celebration of Coutts London Jewellery Week (8-14 June), the jewellers of Belgravia - Erickson Beamon, De Vroomen, Kim Poor and Carolina Bucci - have joined together to create an exciting treasure hunt across Belgravia.
Bags of style
This season Burton menswear has launched an exclusive new limited edition Black Label premium brown leather luggage piece. With only 50 pieces on sale, the limited edition brown leather holdall was picked up as one to watch right after the SS09 Press Show - months before its April release.
Top hair and make-up artists head to Clothes Show Live in London
The Clothes Show Live makes its London debut at Excel this Friday, May 29 and top hairstylists Errol Douglas, Tara Smith and Michael Barnes and make-up artist Ariane Poole will be on the stages sharing their expertise.