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Plain wrong

July 16th, 2010 · No Comments

So Crystal says she was photo shopped to look thinner. One of our most famous curvy beauties  had her body digitally redesigned to appeal to some one’s misguided fashion standard. I am not happy and neither is she…
“Well, I was shocked. When I saw the pictures, I think I was silent for a good five [...]

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Tags: Ethical fashion · Fashion Industry · Fuller

All women deserve great fashion

July 12th, 2010 · No Comments

So Janet Street Porter having a bit of a not unreasonable rant online today. I’m in full agreement with her. The average British woman is a size 16 yet she is not catered for amongst the rails of designer offerings.
When I have spoken to designers about this very matter, they have talked about UK size [...]

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Tags: Fashion Industry · Forty plus

Black and white raises money.

April 26th, 2010 · No Comments

So, I’ve been wearing jeans a lot myself recently as facebook friends will know, as I am at my desk quite a bit at the moment. But I’ve added this plucky super dry t-shirt to my baggy boyfit BlueBood strides. I got it from the Fashion Targets Breast Cancer site where [...]

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Tags: Ethical fashion · Events · Fashion Industry · I am wearing...

Exciting things!

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments

I’m very pleased about all the positive press Chrystal Renn is receiving, having modeled in a London Fashion Week Show this weekend.
I had thought I would be blogging on a regular basis, but the All Walks campaign which we staged this season at the Vauxhall Fashion Scout took a lot of time. We were canvasing [...]

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Tags: Fashion Industry

Difference is hot!

October 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Karl Lagerfeld wins my “crap comment of the year,” award this time round.
His latest take on intelligent reactions to models that are uniformly thin, is to say that it’s only “mummies who watch daytime TV and eat crisps,” that have this opinion.
Actually luv, there are plenty of us out there. In fact you are surrounded [...]

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Tags: Body Shapes · Fashion Industry · Uncategorized