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How to Have a Blog and a Life
It is that time of the year again when tedious tasks are taking forever, deadlines are on the horizon and popping out for an ice cream or brunch with friends seems more attractive than creating a new blog post or replying to the fifty or so e mails that have piled up in your inbox. … Continue reading
What do YOU want to know about fashion?!
Hi guys! This is Community Manager Rachel Michaella here, and I’m posting today to tell you guys about a new project British Style Bloggers are launching which I’m pretty excited about! We want YOU to send us your questions, queries for advice or general ponderings about fashion in general, the industry, journalism/blogging, what we do … Continue reading
The Nineties
In terms of style the nineties can be a difficult decade to pin down. Perhaps it is still to fresh in the memory to really start defining but the last couple of seasons nineties style has enjoyed something of a renaissance on the catwalk and on the high street. For the most part the nineties … Continue reading
Punks, New Romantics and Music
Music has always had a close relationship with fashion. For every subculture, youth group and style there is an associated soundtrack. Since the 1950s and the birth of rock and roll young people interested in fashion and style with a social conscience have been influenced by music in some way. However it is always a … Continue reading
Style vs. Fashion – more than just a battle of words?
When I started British Style Bloggers two and a bit years ago, I really should have thought more carefully about what I named it. It was literally the fact that I thought “style bloggers” sounded cooler than “fashion bloggers” which decided its name. But, really, the choice of those two little words is such a big deal in … Continue reading
How To Wear… The Print Effect
It’s difficult not to notice the array of print that our filling up the catwalk and high street stores at the moment. From animal, Aztec and flower patterns there are plenty of options…If you can handle the headache that these clashing prints bring on whilst shopping. Personally, I am really not a pattern person. Maybe … Continue reading
Why You Shouldn’t Shun Fashion Fringe Shows
Last year, I had the unfortunate circumstance of standing in the queue for an off-schedule London Fashion Week show in front of a rather, well, let’s just say plump woman wearing an atrocious camel-coloured jumpsuit by Stella McCartney. It wasn’t a BAD outfit; it probably would have looked trés chic on a younger woman of … Continue reading
Mary Quant and the Swinging Sixties
The sixties was a time of change. For many minority groups there was revolution and an increased awareness of their rights. This included women who were starting to gain a voice which had been previously unheard. Known for the sexual revolution the sixties saw a loosening of boundaries and for the first time sex was … Continue reading
How did the Fashion Industry get it so wrong?
The Fashion Industry is something that I often feel like I have to defend: I have been working in fashion (and when I say “in fashion”, I really mean it) since I was fourteen years old and got my first writing gig, and so I have a strong affinity for it and everything it stands … Continue reading
BSB Visits: Miss Representation Screening, at Parliament
Last Wednesday I spent a full working day to buy one and a half hours of film and another half of panel discussion. All but those two of these eight hours were spent on being transported – I don’t mean ecstatically – but it was worth it. I’d do it again. Re-wind: Sometime in January … Continue reading
