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Size 12-14 Models On The Catwalk – About Time

The BBC News website is running the story about Mark Fast using size 12-14 models on the catwalk of his London Fashion Week show, hurrah for him.  It’s about time someone stood up to the fashion convention of using stick thin models and has the confidence to show their designs on real, NORMAL, size women.  [...]

20Sep2009 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
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Monsoon Wedding Dress Featured On This Morning’s Bafta Lookalikes

This Morning’s fashion stylist Helen Boyle bought us some of the highlights from the Baftas red carpet and showed us how to get the look on the high street.  For me the best one she did was to copy Laura Bailey’s look with a dress from Monsoon Bridal.  I think Laura Bailey looked stunning in [...]

9Feb2009 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
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Primark ready for another ethical onslaught

Just after the launch of Enfashion we reported on the BBC Panaroma programme that revealed the use of child labour used by contractors in India to make some of Primarks popular bargain garments.  Well 6 months later and Primark are in the news again (BBC1 10′oclock News 12th January 09).  The crazy thing is that this time the ethical [...]

12Jan2009 | Matt | 0 comments | Continued
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Morgan Blazer from Oli

If like me you are a fan of the French owned fashion retailer Morgan, you will be disappointed to learn that they are now in the hands of the administrators.  It has had advertising campaigns featuring Carla Bruni, Mischa Barton and David Ginola no less, but the credit crunch and fierce competition from other large [...]

31Dec2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
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Solid gold statue of Kate Moss unveiled

A £1.5million gold sculpture of a supermodel, just what we need to cheer us up and see us through some turbulent economic times ahead!  Yes I know it’s art and there is great meaning involved with Mark Quinn telling us ”The sculpture is really about whether we make images or they make us. It’s about trying [...]

3Oct2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
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Gok Wan’s ‘How to Dress’ book is on sale now!

Love Gok Wan?  Addicted to ‘How To Look Good Naked’ and ‘Gok’s Fashion Fix’?  Of course you are, now the wonderful Gok has written it all down so that we can refer to it again and again in his book ‘How to Dress’. Gok sets out the rules of how to dress for your body [...]

2Oct2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
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Recycling clothes and helping charity with Fashion Favours

 
Gordon Brown and fashion are not two words that fit together normally, and neither should they, I want my Prime Minister to worry about what’s going on on the political scene rather than the catwalk!  However Gordon and Sarah Brown have donated their outfits that they were wearing for his speech at the Labour Party [...]

25Sep2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
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High Heeled Art from Mark Schwartz

Ok, I’m not bringing you an actual shoe you can wear here, but for all of us who just adore shoes, we don’t actually have to put them on to enjoy them, they are a piece of art.  Remember Rose (Toni Collette) in the film In Her Shoes?  A whole closet full of the most [...]

24Aug2008 | Lisa | 2 comments | Continued
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Marks & Spencer tax bigger bra’s

I’ve just been reading on the BBC News website that Marks & Spencer is having to defend themselves for taxing bigger than DD cup bras.  Apparently a protest group has been set up on Facebook called “Busts for Justice” who are arguing it is unfair to tax larger items of lingerie as it doesn’t apply [...]

11Jul2008 | Lisa | 3 comments | Continued