While I’ve always tried to buy natural materials, and especially since, like many women, have experienced hormonal changes, I’m certain I haven’t shopped responsibly and only rarely boycotted certain brands or High Street shops and chains. I don’t have an excuse. But my eyes were again opened to the issue of the impact of Fast […]
Living Coral 2019 Colour of the year
Living Coral has been announced as the Pantone colour for 2019. “An animating and life-affirming coral hue with a golden undertone that energizes and enlivens with a softer edge.” Pantone I am thrilled that this is the colour of the year. Perhaps we could have predicted it! Opposite on the colour wheel to Ultraviolet and complimentary […]
The Pantone Colour 2018 Ultraviolet
Pantone Colour 2018: Ultraviolet The Pantone Colour Institute has announced the colour of the year would be Purple or rather Ultraviolet. It “communicates originality, ingenuity and visionary thinking,” Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, said by way of explanation. “It is found in the cosmos , the wellness movement (amethyst crystals) and […]
Fashion Trends: The Relevance SS15 Trends
Trends for Image Professionals ~ Resource for use with clients Are you looking for a high quality resource, that you can use with your clients…and that you can customise with your own contact details and logo, and pass it off as your own hard work? The Relevance SPRING SUMMER 2015 Trends is your essential resource […]
Book Review: Dressing the Queen – Angela Kelly
I’ve just read this lovely book which gives an insight into the world of the Queens Jubilee Wardrobe (in particular) and the team that dress her on a daily basis and for all state and official events. This is a lovely coffee table book – which is beautifully illustrated. It was a pleasure to see […]
The Colour of a Wedding Dress
“Married in…White, you will have chosen all right. Married in Grey, you will go far away. Married in Black, you will wish yourself back. Married in Red, you’ll wish yourself dead. Married in Blue, you will always be true. Married in Pearl, you’ll live in a whirl. Married in Green, ashamed to be seen. Married […]
The colour of spring 2011
As I write this article, some of the early daffodils in my garden are well on the way to flowering. Daffodils, forsythia, primroses and crocuses, are just some of the lovely yellow flowers that herald the arrival of spring. Yellow is the colour of sunshine. It is a lovely warm, cheerful colour, but, a bit […]
Grace Kelly – the secret of her style?
It’s difficult to imagine having someone design clothes just for you. And what a lucky lady Grace Kelly was to have Edith Head, Maggy Rouff, Helen Rose and Oleg Cassini amongst others. I loved the Grace Kelly exhibition at the V&A and found it fascinating to see the costumes from High Society and some of […]
