Tag: lifestyle
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Magazines Are Killing Themselves… And Fashion
In its recent issue, Vogue US has a feature on Noor Tagouri; activist, journalist, speaker but next to one of her pictures is the name Noor Bhukari. VOGUE US had misrepresented and misidentified a Muslim-American journalist who speaks on misrepresentation and misidentification; the bloody irony! This is not the first time Ms Tagouri has been…
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In Retail – Catering To The More Seasoned Shopper
My first job in fashion retail was at eighteen, Russell & Bromley at the time I used my staff discount against each purchase and paycheque and at one point I went home with a fifty pound paycheque in what should have been an eight-hundred pound paycheque. Those were the days, when shops where simply as…
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Globe Trotter On Mr Porter
Spring! Spring!! Its here! Its here!! And I have summer holidays on my mind. I don’t even think I’m going away as such because Summer is meant to be a scorcher this year in the UK, as it was last year, but there may be a trip or two in and around the country- The…
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Home Sweet Home- IKEA
I love IKEA, it is my happy place. I love, getting lost in the bedroom department, buying more bookshelves than I need, the cheesy commercial pictures, the candles, boxes, baskets…even the £1 hotdogs and cinnamon rolls. Don’t get me started on the elderflower juice. The best! I prefer going into the IKEA store than shopping online because the online service…
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TO LONDON WITH MUCH LOVE
The most terrifying thing about change, expected or unexpected, is the uncertainty it comes with. Even if you are sure that it’ll be for the best, you cannot help that nagging feeling at the back of your mind. After fifteen years- over one hundred pairs of shoes amassed, too many handbags acquired, books, books and…
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Laters London.
The most terrifying thing about change, expected or unexpected, is the uncertainty it comes with. Even if you are sure that it’ll be for the best, you cannot help that nagging feeling at the back of your mind. After fifteen years- over one hundred pairs of shoes amassed, too many handbags acquired, books, books and…
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British Traditions; The Afternoon Tea
In honour of the Jubilee celebrations we’re talking Afternoon Tea all this week. We’ll be sipping tea with different sets, all fictitious of course, so I hope you’ll join in with pinkies raised. Before then however, here is a brief history of one of the finest English traditions. Of all the traditions of the British,…