Birmingham
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Reviewed – AX Paris Laser Cut PU Scallop Skirt
I must confess, I haven’t worn a leather, or leather look skirt since I was 20. The last one I wore was a black leather pencil skirt that I got from Camden Market, wore a few times, and then retired, thinking I looked like a watered down version of a Midlands Joan Jett – so not a good look. But earlier this month, whilst browsing the AX Paris curve collection choosing a piece to review, I spotted the Laser Cut PU scallop skirt. This was a leather look skirt with a difference. Forget thigh skimming pelmets, or ultra tight tubes, this skirt was demure and modest, almost 1950s in shape.…
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Ted Baker’s Sweet Shoppe – So sweet and Tempting
I’ve been a huge fan of the Ted Baker Sweet Shoppe since it was launched as a pop-up shop in my local Selfridges in Birmingham. The cute and, well, really sweet, collection of bags, shoes and accessories appealed to the girlie side in me. I loved the sherbet colours that truly reminded me of the sweet shops I loved when I was a little girl, with rhubarb and custard and lemon drops in large glass jars, just waiting to be weighed and then poured into paper bags. This was both high fashion and nostalgia, and for that I was hooked. Last week I succumbed to temptation and got one of…
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The Aegon Classic Ladies Day is on it’s way back to Brum!
It was the most glamorous sporting occasion on the Midlands calender last year, and has proved so successful it is coming back for a second time this June. The Ladies’ Day at the Aegon Classic has been announced as taking place on Thursday 13 June at the Edgbaston Priory Club. This is only the second ever Ladies’ Day at the Aegon Classic, and organisers promise that this year it is coming back even bigger and better than in 2012. Shopping in Birmingham are partnering up with the Aegon Classic to promote the event, whilst ‘Ladies’ Fighting Breast Cancer’ is the charity partner for the day, with £2 from every full…
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Roll-up, Roll-up for the Selfridges Shoe Carnival
What is your favourite carnival? Maybe you attend a local one each year, with floats full of children in fancy dress. Do you go to Notting Hill every August, seeing out the end of the holidays in festive style? Or maybe you’ve got further afield, to the beauty of the Venice carnival, with its masked figures and Rococo style elegance, or to sun dripped Brazil for the Mardi Gras? Fabulous carnivals one and all. But this year you don’t need to travel that far to experience all the fun of the carnival. Just pop along to Selfridges and experience the colour, vitality and sheer lustworthy beauty of the Shoe Carnival…
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Harvey Nichols Birmingham S/S Fashion Show 2013 – It’s coming!
The Harvey Nichols Birmingham Spring fashion show is just around the corner, and has proved such a success that this season it will be bigger and better than ever before. And it will be in a new venue. With the last show taking place in The Mailbox Fashion Theatre, there were clear signs that the show was growing in popularity. With this in mind, this Spring’s show will be taking place in the Old Post Office in The Mailbox on Thursday March 21st, the smart industrial space providing a perfect catwalk for Harvey Nichols Ultra-modern designers and ranges. The Harvey Nichols fashion show always has the most fashionable front-row in…
