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 […]
Spring Bouquet…Pantone’s Colour of Today
This lovely shade of apple green is Pantone’s colour choice for today. It’s a lovely colour to wear with jeans and chinos, and goes well with this seasons floral trousers. Here are just a few ideas for how to add the look to quickly and cheaply to your wardrobe… The Kettlewell Colours Tops can be […]
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 2013 – Pantone 17-5641 Emerald Green
With the announcement from Pantone, in early December, that the Colour for 2013 is Pantone 17-5641 Emerald Green, I set about to do a little research on the history of this colour and its use in fashion. As a colour, green has both positive and negative connotations. On the positive side, it is the colour […]
Get more from your five a day: Berries
Inject your wardrobe with some Berry shades this autumn and get more from your “Five a Day” with my five ways to wear Berry… Gerry Weber black t shirt / Great Plains knit top / River Island leather jacket / Fat Face feather vest / dVb Victoria Beckham high waisted jeans, £160 / 7 […]
50 Shades of Red Wordsearch
Now that the Olympics have finished in the UK, you may be at a loose end for something to do…test your knowledge of red and have some fun with my “50 Shades of Red” wordsearch. I hope you enjoy it – there’ll be more to follow.
Save energy and money!
I’ve just come back from holiday in France, where I read an article in “Avantages” magazine about new drying symbols in clothes which have been designed to encourage us all to be kinder to the environment and line dry our clothes. While we’re having such an awful summer in the UK, the thought of hanging […]
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 […]
Look younger for longer
I’ve just finished reading a book called “Look younger for longer (Easy ways to drop a decade)” by Lesley Ann Reynolds. Patsy Kensit is quoted on the front cover saying “Brilliant Advice, Amazing Results”. I couldn’t resist and got reading straight away.
