November 24, 2024
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Fashion & Beauty

London Fashion Week – Ashley Isham A/W 2010

What follows is a guest post from Sarah of the wonderful The Enchanted Hunters as I wasn’t able to make the show. Outside Ashley Isham, I met a girl called Anna. Anna hadn’t been to a catwalk show before, and asked me whether it would be on time. As a veteran of, er, maybe three

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Fashion & Beauty

London Fashion Week – Orla Kiely A/W 10

Wow, I could have spent the entire day just sitting in the Orla Kiely presentation staring at the beautiful set and gorgeous clothes. The room was set up in “rooms” with retro Orla Kiely print wallpaper and divided into a living room complete with telephone table and tv and bedroom with a wardrobe full of

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Fashion & Beauty

London Fashion Week – Bora Aksu A/W 2010

Bora Aksu was my first show of the day after I arrived at Somerset House. Unfortunately  my camera was incredibly confused by the fact that I was sitting in the dark taking photos of a brightly lit catwalk. In my panic I couldn’t figure out how to fix it (I have now, fact fans, turn

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Fashion & Beauty

London Fashion Week – Gemma Slack A/W 2010

Despite the fact that she shares both my first name and my initials I wasn’t expecting to find much to like in Gemma Slacks gothic and bondage inspired collection. I’m happy to admit that I’m not exactly the queen of edgy dressing and Gemma Slack definitely seems to be aimed at the edgier end of

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Fashion & Beauty

Friday Frock Love – M&S

London Fashion Week kicks off today and I shall be there. Sadly only for a couple of days as the limitations of my current location and budget don’t allow me to stay any longer this season. I’ll be back with coverage of the shows and presentations I catch, but for today I’ll leave you with

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

A Gift? For Me? The Ethics of Blogging.

I consider myself an ethical person, sometimes overly so. I’ll often torture myself unnecessarily about whether I have done the right thing and whether I may have upset or offended anyone. I haven’t really said a lot about this so far as I’ve not seen the point, but with the subject being discussed at the

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Fashion & Beauty

What Are You Wearing? The Bo Nanafana Havana Ball….

Saturday night was the Bo Nanafana Havana Ball, try saying that 10 times fast! As always the evening was a triumph of glitz and glamour with free dance lessons early evening and the Bad Hatters drawing Bad Portraits in aid of Haiti. It’s amazing to have the opportunity to get properly dressed up sometimes and,

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Dear Diary

Love & Lust with The Bridewell Collective

Well, it’s been a busy weekend here at camp Retro Chick. On Friday night it was the second event organised by The Bridewell Collective at Lady Lucks Boutique in Bridewell Alley. The first, in December was a vintage hair styling demo, this time around the focus was on love and lust in honour of Valentines

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Fashion & Beauty

Retro Chick Presents: Make Up Tutorial – Smoky Eyes

I promised you make up tutorial videos in honour of Valentines, and make up tutorials I have delivered. On Thursday you got an untouchable red lipped, retro queen, and today, well, today you get the ultimate seductress. Dark smoky eyes are my go to look for a night out. I know I don’t have to

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