High Street Fashion
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.
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.
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.
Jordan could cover up – And still get her tan
UK holiday makers venturing into Muslim countries this summer can stay demure and still get a tan thanks to innovative new swimwear by Kiniki.
Fred Perry hits the High Street
One of the twentieth century’s most iconic brands, Fred Perry is continuing to invest in its high street presence with the roll out of its stunning new retail design concept to two more stores.
Green fashion for yummy-mummies to be
Seraphine, the fashion forward maternity brand, are leading the way in the use of new greener fabrics in their most recent collection. Designed to be worn by both pregnant and non-pregnant women, the new loungewear collection is made from the pulp of bamboo grass.
Cheeky Brits enter Euro Vision thong contest
Forget the Cheeky Girls, British men are casting aside their inhibitions this summer and strutting their stuff in skimpy swimwear. Not wanting to be outdone by Italian stallions and Spanish studmuffins, buff Brits are ditching their baggy shorts for a brighter, tighter package. That’s according to leading swimwear manufacturer Kiniki.com – the British design house that has sold more than 30 million pairs of pants to men all over the world.
Beach chic at your fingertips
This season, modern beach sophisticates need look no further - the launch of luxebylisavogel.com means sleek, sexy and wearable swimwear is now available at your fingertips. To compliment Lisa’s new luxurious collection of chic, understated swimwear gems ideal for hipster moms and style mavens, the new website provides easy to use navigation featuring the latest news, insider information, brand info and online shopping, making great beach style easier to access than ever before.
Look after your breast assets
As us women know, breasts come in all different shapes and sizes, yet they often get overlooked when it comes to giving them the support they need. Many of us have never had a professional bra fitting. We tend to spend hours finding the right shade of makeup or the right style of clothes to suit us, so why not put as much effort into finding the right bra.
Red tie sales rise as guys strive for the Obama look
At Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday, 20 January 2009 he was pictured wearing a bright red spotted tie upon a crisp white shirt. Since then Thomas Pink has noted a huge increase in the sales of red ties, up by 30% in the last week.
50’s glamour with Ispirato
Ispirato’s new Spring/ Summer collection of exquisite occasion wear harks back to 1950’s glamour. This mixed with a modern twist creates both a stylish and focused collection.
Buy My Wardrobe hosts a couture jumble sale
Buy My Wardrobe, a fashion recycling event, is bringing together 20 selected ‘Wardrobe Mistresses’ to sell the designer contents of their closets at Adam St Members Club on January 31st, 12-5pm. This credit crunch defying event combines brilliant second hand clothes with the perfect female shopping and pampering experience, offering designer looks on tightened belts.
All American boy
The online fashion store, asos.com, has revealed its menswear collection for spring and summer 2009. The ‘Preppy Tec’ trend sees a contemporary take on the classic American Ivy League look but with a softer, more colourful palette, influenced by the Italian Paninaro scooter gangs that influenced terrace fashions of the 80’s and 90’s.
ASOS gets maternal
Expectant mums shouldn’t have to sacrifice style for maternity but it can be a real struggle to find fashion-forward maternity wear, especially at Christmas time. Luckily the UK’s leading online fashion store, asos.com, is launching an on-trend capsule maternity collection just in time for the Christmas party circuit.
Gok Wan teams up with plus size lingerie designers
British fashion stylist and TV presenter Gok Wan has teamed up with plus size lingerie designers Simply Yours to create a range of sexy shapewear dedicated to the curvier figure. Gok Wan’s control wear collection is exclusively available from simplyyours.co.uk in sizes 8-32, cups A-G and back sizes 30-46. Comprising 11 lingerie lines, Gok Wan for Simply Yours is inspired by classic shapewear from the 1940s and 1950s but is most definitely for the modern woman.