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Fashion & Beauty

The Key ‘September Issue’ Trend: Embroidery 

The September issues give the fashion world some time to step away from topical issues, political events and awards ceremonies usually interspersed among the issues running up to the main fashion issue. The majority of fashion brands this year moved on from the 60’s inspiration onto the 70’s, with browns reigning supreme. Remember my review […]

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Poland

Exploring Poland: The Palace of Wilanów in Warsaw

The time between each new post has definitely become longer, so I will endeavor to make it shorter in the coming weeks! It’s always interesting coming back to old haunts after years, especially when you seem to link those haunts to your development creatively. Warsaw is so different from London and Durham- nothing seems to […]

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Articles

What is Fashion, and how do different people portray it?

A textbook definition of fashion would be one from a dictionary, such as Collins, where it is clearly said that fashion is “style in clothes, hairstyles etc., popular at a particular time”, while a definition from the Wikipedia is-“Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear or […]

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Books

‘The Miniaturist’, Jessie Burton

Dear God I have not read fiction in a long time. After marveling at the book for quite a while (I love beautiful covers), I decided to pick it up properly and read it, back to front. Now as a bookworm will know, I had a very hard time putting it down owing to too […]

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Books

RIP Terry Pratchett- One Huge Imagination Gone…

  Dear Mr Pratchett, Many times I have leafed through your wonderful Discworld chronicles, expecting to understand why people I knew always loved your books. Then I began to search in them, to look deeper and to read every page like it was an adventure- I could feel the pages speeding up as my eyes […]

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Fashion Weeks

LFWend at Somerset House

For those who like going to see catwalk shows and reviewing the year’s trends, London Fashion Week is the holy grail representing the British Fashion Industry. However, press accreditation and possible jobs there are limited to just a few people, while the rest are already in the fashion industry. However, the London Fashion Weekend is […]

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Tokyo

Guide to Tokyo

My experience in Japan started out in Tokyo. The biggest metropolis in Japan, with millions of people darting about on a daily basis, from Shibuya (see the famous crossing here) to Akihabara, or electric town, it turned out to be my love of a lifetime. A few trips and I was hooked! The food, culture […]

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Exhibitions Tokyo

Esprit Dior in Tokyo

When I think of couture I think of Dior, as the house has been synonymous with creating the glitz and glamour that we now associate with film award ceremonies, and the fabulous ball gowns of the past. Dior has been a key player in the world as one of the leading suppliers of high fashion […]