Two month’s ago I wrote about giving the opening speech at the first Creative Women in business conference in Paphos, Cyprus. It was an international gathering of women and men eager to make connections, do business with and learn from each other. A few days ago I returned to Cyprus, as Ambassador for Cyprus’ first...Read More
As I work in our Covent Garden atelier on a marketing tactic to introduce Semple dresses to more women, I am distracted by a voice on the radio mentioning online shopping. Two years ago I wouldn’t have been so interested but now a good deal of my time is spent thinking about why women buy...Read More
On Thursday 28 April Marketing Week’s Vision 100 for 2016 was announced. Now in its third year, Marketing Week selects 100 people each year to join a growing group of visionaries. There are now 300 of them and I was delighted to find out that I had been nominated to join the 2016 group. All...Read More
Were you ever part of a club at school? Brownies, Cadets or the school swimming team perhaps? No matter which club you were a part of, being a member gave you a sense of pride, empowerment and belonging. Bringing like minded people together and creating a society stronghold is an ever-growing trend, and London is...Read More
A couple of week’s ago I was a guest speaker at the Royal Bank of Scotland Focused Women’s Week event hosted by the talented Heather Melville, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Head of Inclusive Initiatives at RBS. I began my talk by stating that Heather was a rare asset and I explained that each year,...Read More
I would imagine that there are three kinds of readers of this message: those who know me very well, those who know aspects of who I am, and those who are still figuring me out. For the last six weeks I have been hosting exclusive evening events in my atelier built in 1692 in Covent...Read More
When I was living in Sydney in 2004, I signed up for a Nike Women’s 5K and there in started my obsession with running. I started to get fit, lose my post-uni weight and created a training plan to motivate myself. However, I found sometimes it could be a lonely pursuit having no friends who ran,...Read More
Long gone are the days when we would socialise with our friends by doing something fun, something playful and exciting. In the modern day social media controls our lives and it also has the power to control our minds. Children, teens and adults obsess over the recent phenomenon. It becomes a part of our lifestyle, it...Read More
Travel is often more arduous than it should be, filled with noise, tedious announcements and unnecessary ‘security’ delays. I try to rise above it, finding a sense of stillness with a book or writing my blog, drawing on observations of new people and events around me, distilling those into short paragraphs about many topics. Listening,...Read More
During our first meeting of 2016 I proposed to the team that this would be a year of consolidation. I promised not to come up with too many new ideas and I think I saw a few eyes flicker in disbelief. The Semple team had some great achievements in 2015. One example, our magazine Semple...Read More
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