Another week, another online shopping obsession - this one sparked off by Miss Selfridge's Instagram page and a rather lovely dress they posted up. It got me feeling very impatient for the summer and then anxious that we might not get a proper summer (it happens) and...
A couple of weeks ago The Sunday Times Style ran a piece about cricket jumpers and there was one in particular, a lush cashmere number from Boden, that kickstarted a bit of a window shopping sweater obsession. Because the one from Boden was sold out, immediately, and...
Welcome to this week's shopping obsession: nude court shoes. I need some to finish off my "key spring outfit", which is my faux-leather Karen Millen skirt with wrap blouse/Hush cashmere/soft marl t-shirt. Nude - or beige - shoes also look incredibly chic with...
Oh I am all over these lacy dresses and skirts that seem to be flooding the clothes shops at the moment. I'm talking about the beautifully feminine, Chloe-style lace garments, not the fitted type in garish colours that look flammable and scratchy. Floaty, romantic...
I'm having a bit of a nude moment, when it comes to fashion and beauty; so pretty, so uplifting for spring and (though not quite so low-maintenance) such a lovely change from black. Black is timeless and chic, but so is nude - it just takes nerves of steel to wear it....
When I was a child, I used to get a very specific aching in my knees every time we passed a women's fashion store. My Mum, it always seemed, could shop for clothes until the cows came home, or at least until one or both of my legs had lost all feeling. I'd stand...
Every January for the past - I don't know, twelve Januaries? - I have had a little ritual with my Louis Vuitton yearly planner. Carefully extracting all of the previous year's diary pages and opening a new, box-fresh set, excited at the prospect of crisp, blank pages....
I have never been able to resist a bit of a discount and usually, when sales time comes around, I will hunt high and low for something - anything - to buy in order to take advantage of the reduced prices. But when it's the Very Exclusive sales, things take a bit of a...
The Whistles Advent Calendar is a rather brilliant annual event; every December from the 1st until the 24th they have incredible prizes to be won, including a year's supply of shoes, a trolley dash and a luxury weekend away. But this year they've taken things even...
The Cowl-Neck jumper hunt continues... I don't know why I'm so obsessed - I actually really like my neck but I seem intent on finding sweaters to hide it away! The two on this page are both from Karen Millen. They are gorgeously soft, have good chunky roll-necks to...
A random theme for a video, you may think, but I love a parka during the winter months. And spring and autumn, for that matter; I probably clock up a good hundred days of parka-wearing every year. But so many of the parkas these days look and feel cheap - shiny...
I thought that this t-shirt was rather appropriate, considering my passion for all things beauty. I'm not quite sure whether the huge letters on the chest distract attention away from my rather matronly bosom or make a feature of it: either way, I like this t-shirt...