I don’t want to boast but the debate I took part in last night at the Cambridge Union came to a satisfactory conlusion for me.
I was for the motion ‘Fashion is Elitist,’ along with Guardian journalist Hadley Freeman. I think I could have argued it either way but predictably I chose to use the work [...]

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Designers of the future will have better knowledge about fashion design, if, like students at Edinburgh College of Art, they have worked with ordinary women during their training.
I’m delighted that this is something All Walks (the initiative I co-founded) has helped to instigate as a result of a sustained appeal to educationalists to [...]

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As you know I’m all for using realistic models in fashion shoots and I like to think my All Walks campaign (having done just that in the last two years) has inspired lots of others to do the same. And you know we love to work with women just like you in our roadshows.
So I [...]

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Commercial shows like the one I just spent the last 4 days hosting at Pavillions Birmingham can be every bit as uplifting and inspirational as any London Fashion Week Show.
This is Valerie Pain at Close Models who is in big demand…you may have seen her already in my All Walks Campaigns.
The fact is women want [...]

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So there I was…last week happily tweeting about being grey then yesterday the Observer feature hits the stands then blow me down this morning Radio 4 send a mobile recording studio to my house to talk more! So wedged in between their usual political output, I add a style footnote.

As you know I love fashion [...]

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