It is not a secret that fashion trends always come back, year after year we think we have discovered something new but the inner truth is that there are always elements from the past that already marked a style in time. This Christmas, looking back through my mum’s wardrobe, I found many dresses from the...Read More
Those you’ve always had at home, maybe out of sight for ages or perhapes even unaware of them in your closet…but those which you fall in love with right away when you rediscover them one day. This is just what happened to me when I found my mother’s vintage Chanel ruby necklace in a tiny...Read More
As Maggie Semple celebrated its second birthday last week, there is only one way in which I can pay tribute to this great success, by writing about my own ‘treasured garment’, my cape coat. When I first bought what may seem to many as an ordinary Topshop coat, I was overwhelmed by its initial captivating...Read More
Congratulations to Jenny Williams, our MSL ‘Treasured Garment Story’ Competition Winner After I finished Year 12, I went to live in far North-Norway for a year on school exchange. One thing that became very important (and that had never really mattered before), were socks. In Australia I had gone about in bare feet, or in...Read More
MSL love to know the history of garments and with summer holidays just around the corner we today look to the bikini. The two piece swimsuit, which we have come to associate with sandy beaches, is no new invention. In fact, drawings of bikini-like suits have been found on wall paintings dating back as late as...Read More
I sometimes think I was meant to shape serendipity because I enjoy chance encounters with new people. I seek situations and environments where I meet people who might enrich my business ideas or bring a new dimension to my creative life. The team at MSL spend time in virtual environments meeting people and encouraging them...Read More
The MSL team have been bringing women together to tell their fashion stories since October 2010. Placing particular emphasis on treasured items of clothing, MSL love to hear about how clothes make women feel and the stories surrounding their fond memories of wearing them. At MSL we know that every woman has at least one...Read More
Wherever we go, whatever we do, whoever we become and however it happens there’s always; consistently and unwaveringly, one person who champions you throughout it all: your mum. The opportunity to give a token of our appreciation of the most wonderful woman most of us will ever know comes around only once a year, so...Read More
Some of you will recall my advent tweets that started seven days before Christmas. Each tweet mentioned something about the charity that I chair, the National Youth Music Theatre and a celebrity who started their career there. Two months later I can reveal that the tweets led to an event on Monday 20 February at...Read More
Rebecca Aspin loves weddings so much that three years ago after the biggest day of her life; her own wedding; she decided it was time to share the love and start-up be own internet business. Sell My Wedding is the go-to site for brides looking for inspiration and the perfect place to find vintage garments...Read More
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