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All eyes were fixed on Vogue Fashion Fund winner for AW16. Mary took her show back to her roots, setting up showcase in her place of study, Central St Martins. Exposed brickwork lined the show space and a metallic fabric reminiscent of kitchen foil covered the floor, while a large bundle of metallic balloons crafting the entrance...
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Following one of the biggest campaigns in recent times comes a new wave of war against the unfair inequality between the sexes. And even though the ‘tampon tax’ debate has still not been resolved, light has now been shed on the sexist pricing of everyday products which has resulted in more fuel being added to the...
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Going wheat free is kind of something I never thought I’d do. Not for any other reason than the fact that gluten-free diets started to become a fashion statement in 2015 (not for everyone of course, but it was starting to be glamorised a little too much by celebs for my liking) and I didn’t...
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When I tell people what I do for a living it is normally met with one of two reactions. Either they come over all dreamy and start waxing poetic about how whimsical it is that my business is in words or they question if being a writer is an actual job at all. I’m not...
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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...
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Up until a couple of weeks ago we were ever so nearly managing to avoid the brisk and jaw juddering depths of winter. Then one day we woke up and it hit us like a snow ball in the face. Winter. Although winter has its perks: crisp and fresh mornings, cosy nights by a fire...
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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,...
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“Annie Leibovitz captures women in all our human variety and idiosyncrasy, simplicity and artifice, bravery and fear, creativity of mind as well as womb; in other words, in all our humanity. No notion as limited as gender can account for all the truths in this exhibit.” – Gloria Steinem There aren’t many people that could...
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“You don’t look like you should be short!” A mild acquaintance once said to me during a casual conversation. We were in college, and I was free of the near constant bullying that I’d gone through in secondary school. My battered and broken self-esteem was finally in an environment where it was given the chance...
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Branding your body with the name of a loved one has long been tabooed. And while some think of it as romantic to ink the surface of their skin in the name of love, I find it tacky. For me it has nothing to do with the permanency of the tattoo itself, but more to...
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