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	Celebrity attendees at Graduate Fashion Week An extremely dapper (as always) Harold Tillman, Chairman of the British Fashion Council, Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications & Creative Industries, Sophie Ellis-Bextor looking beautiful in vintage Dior...View More
	Graduate Fashion Week GALA Show Award Evening Graduate Fashion Week came to a spectacular close recently with two wonderfully orchestrated Gala Shows and a host of Celebritiy attendees. The lucky winner of the prestigious £20,000 Gold Award, which is sponsored by...View More
	London Fashion Week – Spring/Summer 2012 Collections Somerset House hosted another extremely successful week for British Fashion last week, where the Spring/Summer 2012 Collections, were shown over six days, and included 68 catwalk shows, and 37 presentations...View More
	London Fashion Week – Spring/Summer 2012 London Fashion Week kicked off recently with an easy to wear and super feminine collection from Paul Costello in the BFC tent, followed shortly afterwards by a wonderful collection from Caroline Charles, which brought a new meaning to the word ‘sparkle’...View More
	Milan and Paris Menswear It was a mixture of Rock n’ roll, Resort and Sportwear Styles on many of the Milanese and Parisian Catwalks during the Milan and Paris Menswear shows with the Sportswear references excitedly pre-empting the 2012 London Olympics...View More
	The Duchess of Cambridge – ‘Ordinary Woman’ – Are you Serious….? I couldn’t believe it when I read this week that the Duchess of Cambridge is receiving criticism about the way she dresses...View More
	Weird & Wonderful, And Wonderfully Wearable! This is the only way to describe the fantastic offerings from this year’s round of Graduate Fashion Shows, which did not fail to impress and offered us collections across the board, from the breathtakingly beautiful, to extremely commercial, and through to the downright wacky!...View More
	William and Kate in Canada Kate & William Sprinkle their own Unique Brand of Royal Fairy Dust on Canada and Hollywood! From the moment Kate Middleton boarded the flight to Canada, she seemed to be proving that she ‘meant business’ on this trip...View More
	Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall’s Wedding Zara Phillips (who is keeping her own name) arrived at the 17th Century Canongate Kirk on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh looking absolutely beautiful on Saturday in a traditional Stewart Parvin creation, with a full pleated skirt in ivory silk faille with a long ‘Cathedral length’ veil...View More
	Central Saint Martins – BA Fashion Show – June 2009 The York Hall, an Old Boxing venue in Bethnall Green, East London, was packed full to its historic rafters with Celebrities and Press for this year’s highly anticipated Central St Martins BA Fashion Show on Tuesday 2nd June 2009...View More
	Brighton Graduate Fashion Show – June 2009 Burt, Brill & Cardens Solicitors, Brighton Graduate Fashion Show – By Amanda Waters. To continue our theme for Graduate Fashion Week, we popped along to the Brighton Graduate Fashion Show, full of anticipation, and we were certainly not to be disappointed....View More
	Fashion Highlights 2009 2009 has been an exciting year for British Fashion. Not only did our Design Colleges come up with some spectacular and innovative talent, but the 25th Anniversary of London Fashion Week in September (at it’s chic new venue at Somerset House) was extremely successful...View More
	John Rocha – A Global Success Story With Christmas behind us and looking forward to 2010, but with the worries of Climate Change uppermost in our minds, (along with how on earth to get the pine needles out of the carpet, and wondering what the balance will be on our credit cards)...View More
	London Fashion Week’s 25th Anniversary – September 2009 On an exciting week, where ‘normal’ sized models strutted their stuff alongside size zero models on the catwalk at the Mark Fast Show, the Sykes collection was presented on models up to the age of 70 (who looked fabulous), and celebrities dressed up like Flintstones characters, my head was in quite a spin!...View More
	Graduates Amaze with Catwalk Craft – Brighton & Earl’s Court Fashion is a vibrant industry, always on the lookout for new talent. Here in Sussex we have some of the best courses and the brightest hopes for the future. We went to the Graduate Shows in London and Brighton to take a look at what they’re doing...View More
	Graduates Amaze with Catwalk Craft – Brighton & Earl’s Court Graduate Fashion Week is held every year at the beginning of June to showcase the designs from students graduating from Universities and Colleges across the Country to the worlds press and fashion gliterrati in the hope of discovering the next big thing in the fashion world...View More
	Lisbon Spring/Summer 2010 After the sizzling success of London Fashion Week, we ‘had the bug’,and felt we had to pay a visit to Lisbon Fashion Week, which is renowned for its glamour and innovation, but is sometimes slightly overlooked in the race to cover the ‘Main Four’ – New York, London,Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks...View More
	London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 Collections London Fashion Week September 2010, was inspiring, with outstanding collections including the sheer romance of floor-sweeping femininity from Julien MacDonald’s silk and chiffon gowns (or were they negliges?), some ‘fastened’ with parachute straps with their long silk trains billowing behind as the models seemingly glided down the runway...View More
	London Calling The big names of the fashion world returned for the 25th anniversary of London Fashion Week and it won’t be long before the designs arrive in a boutique near you. Amanda Waters from Fashion Show Images says the future really is Brit!...View More
	The Shape Of Things To Come The great and the good turned out for London Fashion Week to see the designs that will set the scene for this autumn and winter. Amanda Waters, of South Coast Studios, was there for all the action...View More
	Milan Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2010 After the successful and calming sense of ‘wearability’ which came to our London Catwalks during London Fashion Week, we popped along to Milan to see if any of the same trends had followed through...View More
	All Eyes on Issa With the Royal Wedding upon us, all eyes were on one of Kate Middleton’s favourite designers at London Fashion Week. It is the event where the fashionistas among us get a clue as to the trends for Autumn and Winter. Amanda Waters was there for Sussex Life...View More
	Obama’s & The Cameron’s Show Their Respects What a magnificent day it was yesterday! Firstly, President Obama met up with David Cameron at No 10 for private talks for over an hour yesterday morning. Outside, many UK and US Veterans and their wives quietly made their way into No 10 for a BBQ.View More
	The Queen’s Of Fashion Unite What a wonderful day for Britain yesterday, not only due to the success of the visit itself by President Barack and Michelle Obama, but also due to the fact that from the time of her arrival, (wearing Preen), Michelle Obama thoughtfully included pieces from some of our most exciting British designers into her wardrobe for the visit, (whilst not forgetting to pack some of her favourite American pieces also). View More
	The Royal Wedding Fashions With the Royal Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (or Kate and William to you and I) a little way behind us, one could have been forgiven for feeling slightly deflated after all the excitement.View More
	Cool Britannia Classically Beautiful, demure, and understated are all words which were used to describe our future Queen when I asked friends, family, and colleagues of their opinion of Kate Middleton, and, exactly the same words could be used to describe her beautiful wedding gown. View More
	Future ‘King & Queen Of Humility’ Classically Beautiful, demure, and understated are all words which were used to describe our future Queen when I asked friends, family, and colleagues of their opinion of Kate Middleton. View More

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