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
When I was at primary school I went out with a boy for around five days and within two days we got married in the playground. To keep his attention, I had to buy him football stickers that he was collecting for his magazine. The next day a girl gave him more football stickers than...Read More
My first year of primary school was the last time I had a male best friend, or any male friends at all for the rest of my childhood. During my nursery and infants school years, my best friends were always boys. I got along with them better, in a simpler time before gender politics and...Read More
These cold winter days and long dark nights have been around for what feels like an eternity. As much as we all like a cosy night in with a good film, good food and good company, nothing beats a bright and beautiful spring day. A day where the trees start to turn a vibrant green,...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
So, we have eaten our own body weight in food (some would say this is a skill, a pure talent in fact, all on its own). We have had late nights, perhaps drank too much and spent mornings and afternoons sprawled out on the sofa, and it has been absolutely wonderful. The only thing we...Read More
In my wanderings around Belgium, I of course stopped off at perhaps its most famous city: Bruges. I even set aside more time for it, anticipating there’d be more to see and was right to do so. Not only are there plenty of attractions, churches and spires to visit, Bruges itself is just a pleasant...Read More
This is quite a bittersweet post for me to write this week as it is going to be my last for Semple for a while. After blogging for Semple for over three years I am sad to be giving it up but am extremely excited about the next adventure ahead of me as I am about...Read More
Just figuring out an outfit to dress in each morning can be challenge enough sometimes but throw in the addition of an ever expanding baby bump and it can get even trickier. Suddenly your favourite go-to items don’t fit anymore, your body shape is changing and your hormones are making your emotions run riot. Basically...Read More
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