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Shopping & Style

Blogs, reviews and the latest news on fashion, beauty, boutiques, shopping, services and style in London

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London Fashion Week Sneak Preview
London Fashion Week Sneak Preview

McQ, the highlight of the LFW Monday round-up, promises to return to McQueen roots: street-style with great fabrics and cut

Is Size Zero Really the Answer?
Is Size Zero Really the Answer?

London is the first city in which a trades union has agreed to protect models, with guidelines on pay and working hours

Vegan Shoes at Beyond Skin
Vegan Shoes at Beyond Skin

Beyond Skin pumps are more feminine and flirty than Deborah Kerr. And more sexy-assassin than The Bride in ‘Kill Bill’

Fabulous Gifts for Valentine’s Day
Fabulous Gifts for Valentine’s Day

With February 14 fast approaching, what does the kind of gift you get say about the current status of your relationship?

Designer to Watch: Funlayo Deri
Designer to Watch: Funlayo Deri

The spring/summer 2012 collection is inspired by architectural lines, and is a potpourri of the strident and the sexy

KeraStraight…For Unruly Hair
KeraStraight…For Unruly Hair

The KeraStraight treatment involves injecting the hair with pure keratin before being sealed in with straightening irons

A Stylish Bombing of East London
A Stylish Bombing of East London

The Blitz Party: It’s tea dresses and hair curls for the girls and white shirts, braces, flat caps or full military attire for the guys

Fashion and Femininity
Fashion and Femininity

King Charles II’s mistress, actress Nell Gwyn, seems exclusively to be painted getting into or out of her clothes

Fashion Resolutions for the New Year
Fashion Resolutions for the New Year

Let’s take the advice of style guru Nina Garcia: it is not a beautiful woman that sustains her interest, but a confident one

Carmen: A Life in Fashion
Carmen: A Life in Fashion

This exquisite exhibition is a yummy hors d’oeuvre for the holidays; a glimpse of a 66-year career of fashion’s favourite muse

Journeys of a City Girl

Cath Millman
Londoner Cath Millman's travel blog takes us beyond the big smoke - read her blog

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