Tag

blog post
If you love design-led fashion but you have a high street budget then there is surely only one place you head when you hit the high street; Reiss. The high end, high street store has been delivering quality fashion to the British public for nearly 45 years and it isn’t showing signs of slowing down any...
Read More
When I first heard that Hollywood were investing so much time and money into Suffragette – the story of Maud Watts played by Carey Mulligan, a foot soldier in the war on equality and women’s rights to vote, I was genuinely shocked that it was finally happening. I could feel the excitement building inside of me;...
Read More
Some trends that come along feel like a little too much effort. Take Ladylike Goth for example, great look once you get there but getting just the right amount of black lace, the exact height of chunky boot and just a touch of aloof swagger can feel like a big effort when the nights are getting...
Read More
You leave to see the world, to move past your comfort zone and away from the familiar. To explore and try new things. To find out something about yourself you never knew before. You meet amazing people, fall in love with distant places and discover the wonder of different cultures and then with a snap...
Read More
I love this time of year. Now I realise this statement tends to put me in a minority as the vast majority mourn the lack of sunshine, the drop in temperature and the freedom of sundress and flip flops. Yes, I could do without the constant rain and the long dark nights but as a pale skinned...
Read More
coming home
I have been away from home just shy of five months. I’m now due to head back there in just seven days and it is a time of mixed emotions and feelings. My ravenous anticipation to get home to my family and friends is fiercely opposed by my desire to stay. Apart from the obvious things...
Read More
My boyfriend and I have started a new tradition, one that we wish to keep going for as long as life allows us to. We have visions of us in our nineties, disorientated and unfiltered, still jumping on the Northern Line to Charing Cross and turning the corner to arrive at our much loved bookshop,...
Read More
I almost jumped with excitement when I heard that Hollywood was planning another modern day renewal of a Shakespeare classic. My all-time favourite film has to be Baz Luhrman’s Romeo + Juliet; a dystopian, heady array of clashing neon lights and Hawaiian shirts. Luhrman’s take on the classic was a beautiful alternative to archetypal Shakespeare yet the most accurate...
Read More
Since the 1950s James Bond has been synonymous with the dapper ladies-man iconography we have come to know today and whether you’re a self-proclaimed fan or not, you’re bound to know your fair share of 007 trivia. Spanning books, television, gaming and film James Bond has always been the man of up-most sophistication and uncompromising...
Read More
the killing fields
Just 40 short years ago communist leader Pol Pot and his Khmer Rogue army were inflicting their reign of terror and genocide on the people of Cambodia. In just under four years they would wipe out an estimated 1.7 million people, a staggering 21 percent of Cambodia’s population. In the chronicle of 20th century horrors,...
Read More
1 14 15 16 17