Nestled amongst twinkling candle light, piles of goodies, including our book ‘Semple: Women Fashion Stories’, filled the tables of the The Ivy Club’s inviting Loft Room on Tuesday night. Our friends and supporters started to enter our informal celebration, happily greeting and meeting each other and while the drinks flowed, a sense of anticipation and...Read More
Pudsey is not an obvious fashion icon but this year, everything has changed. Gone is the fuzzy yellow fur and the spotty bandage, this year Pudsey has had a make over. Pudsey has gone couture. In a collaboration with 11 of the most coveted designers on the British fashion scene, including the prestigious British...Read More
A friend rang me the other evening to say that he was sitting with friends in a pub for a social catch up and during the conversation, a woman spoke excitedly about a blog that she was following with great interest. She commented on the elegance of the brand and of how she was intrigued...Read More
There are just so many strings to Vanessa Vallely’s bow, that it is hardly possible to do all of them justice when stated in one quick sweep, but here goes… Vanessa founded leading women’s network We Are The City, co-founded The Network of Networks, is a Banking and Finance professional of twenty years, Managing Director...Read More
‘Children in Need’ occurs every year and every year we are faced with the traditional ‘Children in Need’ mascot of a simple, yellow teddy bear named Pudsey. Not anymore! Gone are the days of soft yellow fur and a spotty bandage to cover Pudsey’s right eye. Now, Pudsey is demanding more! This year Pudsey goes...Read More
Born into a musical family in 19th Century Paris and graduating from the Lycee-Louise-Le-Grand with a baccalaureate in literature, Edgar Degas seemed destined to be infamously creative. The Royal Academy of Art’s newest exhibition is a celebration of Degas’ work; entitled ‘Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement’, the curators have put together an extensive collection...Read More
As I stood in the beautiful glass lift of The Ivy Club in Covent Garden earlier this week, I contemplated just how significant this week was for Maggie Semple Limited. I was at the prestigious Ivy Club to celebrate our 1st anniversary along with many of our friends and supporters, who, amongst the twinkling lights...Read More
Scarlett Sweeney describes herself as ‘an actress of English, French, Italian, Scottish and Irish heritage – with a passion for antiques, clothing, jewellery, cookery, history, reading classic novels and watching interesting films’. When the Semple team met her during the filming of our promotional film, we realised just how much we had to learn from...Read More
Gerhard Richter is known worldwide for his diverse and sometimes abstract approach to painting. Leaving his homeland of Communist East Germany, he travelled to Dusseldorf in 1961, where he became a painter. Fifty years later, his work is celebrated in an exhibition at the Tate Modern, which brings together his key works of art including...Read More
Choreographer and Artistic Director Anna Watkins formed her own contemporary dance company, WatkinsDance, in June 2011. Her interest in dance was ignited at the age of twelve when she began taking ballet classes at The Place, before formally training at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. On graduating Anna initially pursued a career...Read More
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