Gold Rush

So the colour that you couldn’t pay me to wear a few years ago has now become my colour of the moment.  Tacky, blingin’, in yer’ face, glorious gold.  Oh, how the tables have turned!  First, the colour crept into bags and sweet flats and now I could do with gold dresses, leggings and gloves… Continue reading Gold Rush

Back to School

So yesterday, I went back to basics, and today, school is the word.  In the Telegraph, British designer Margaret Howell recommended John Lewis boys’ school shirts as one of her top 5 picks for shirts which reminded me what a great resource we have in school uniform shops!  I gather that the UK is one… Continue reading Back to School

Squares and Stripes

On the most part (ok…bar the Celia Birtwell collection), Topshop don’t make a HUGE deal about their designer collaborations, unlike H&M.  Sophia Kokosalaki, Peter Jensen, Jens Laugesen, Emma Cook and quite a few others have done collections for Topshop and it just sort of quietly sits there on the rails of the boutique section in… Continue reading Squares and Stripes