Jonathan Brown
Gettin’ a Sweet Fix at Candy Cakes
With the summer’s diet resolve now limper than a tea-drenched digestive it’s time to submit to the sugar rush, and Candy Cakes makes falling off the diet wagon tantamount to an artistic pursuit. Witnessing the epilepsy-inducing camera flashing that surrounds the shop front it could be assumed that the Beckhams are inside stark naked. The [...]
Beyond Retro Kits Out Soho
The retro clothing market is becoming increasingly cluttered, hence the epidemic of lacklustre stock sweeping London. One time exemplar traders are now attempting to pass off last season’s retro pastiches from the ubiquitous Gap and H&M as original vintage wear; a somewhat radical interpretation of original stockists. Enter stage West: Beyond Retro has long been [...]
Fighting Fat at the Wimpole Aesthetic Centre
In a society where we want it all and we want it now, gradual weight loss, healthy eating and exercise is tedious and time consuming. When I rock home from work at nine in the evening I stuff my exhausted face with more sugar than a piñata at a fat American children’s party. I have [...]
Theatreland’s Dress Circle
Sometimes London feels as friendly as afternoon tea with your menopausal mother-in-law or, more aptly in this case, the Wicked Witch of the West. This coupled with the perpetual winter of 2007 one could be forgiven for feeling a little melancholy. Well don’t mope around the cellar waiting for Prince Charming. Tap your ruby-reds together [...]
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