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Reviewed – Tribal Print Maxi Dress from Mark Heyes at Marisota
Do you have a summer staple in your wardrobe? Maybe you have a few choice pieces that you turn to, time and time again when the weather gets warm. If you’re anything like me, one of your fail-safe pieces will be a maxi dress. For me, the maxi dress has become a hero product, perfect for casual daytime wear, a great piece to pack for beach holidays and city breaks. But a maxi can also be dressed up with strappy sandals and court shoes, and worn with a blazer for a summer wedding, or even to become a part of your working wardrobe. To put it simply, there aren’t many…
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The Secret Into Designing The Perfect Website/ Blog
Are you thinking of designing your own website? Maybe you want to create a blog for yourself where you can share your life experiences, hobbies, passions and more. If so, you have come to the right place as I am going to give you some and advice on the best ways of doing this through a step by step guide. During the planning process, you must think carefully about two things: How do you want it to look? Before going ahead and designing your website/blog, it’s important to plan exactly how you want it to look. These things include the layout, the colour scheme, pictures/videos and the content. You should…
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Sally Harper – Fashion’s sharpest Milliner.
Unless you have been residing on the moon, you couldn’t fail to notice that a bare head is seriously under-dressed. Hats, headpieces, headbands and fascinators- all of these items are having a bit of a style moment. Dita Von Teese favours the 1940s ‘black widow’ veiled looks, Kate Middleton has a neat collection of fascinators, Paloma Faith accessorises most of her outfits with some variety of headgear, whilst Kate Moss has modelled all varieties, from straw boaters at rock star weddings, stylish Trilby’s at summer festivals, to Minnie Mouse style headbands at Disneyland. The old adage ‘If you want to get ahead – get a hat’ has never been truer.…
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Leopard Print- The cat in your wardrobe.
Is there a more iconic fabric or print than leopard? Every season, leopard print is on trend, whether it be in the form of warm coats and scarves in winter, or long maxi dresses and cute bikinis in warmer months. Leopard print accessories always look fabulous, and add sex appeal to any outfit, Leopard print is a true, timeless classic that has probably been de jour since we were living in caves and walking around in pelts. What makes it so timeless, and how can you ensure that you channel Kate Moss or Joan Crawford, rather than Bet Lynch, or, god bless her, Paris Hilton? It’s tricky. If you get…
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Comeback Fashion Trends
Fashion just like history repeats itself. Although it evolves, a cycle of repeated nostalgia still runs through the trends of today, making a massive reference to the era’s of the past mainly the 1970’s & 1990’s. The beauty of fashion in that it’s not an exact science and it is more about creative expression and feeling than it is about accuracy, so it can often be difficult to pinpoint why these trends keep repeating themselves. We’ve seemed to have unanimously come to agree that fashion has a 20-year trend cycle, and with culture evolving faster each year what was cool in the 70’s became hot in the 90’s and is…
