In May this year, Nina Naustdal opened her first shop in London, Nina Naustdal Couture, a beautiful gem in itself located in the heart of Chelsea. Nina’s first collection was all about evening wear with amazing cocktail dresses and long Italian silk dresses embellished with gems and...

Le Cabinet de Curiosité de Thomas Erber has brought together 30 internationally renowned artists and designers, commissioned to create the most unique and exceptional objects. Creations will be showed from November 21st to December 23rd at Browns, on South Molton Street. For the occasion...

Hosted by George Lamb and Lauren Laverne the British Fashion Awards ceremony took place on Monday 28th November. Celebrating excellence achieved in the industry this year, the event was attended by industry leaders, designers, retailers, models, celebrities and media supporting both the...

East London Design Show is open this weekend! Literally bursting with design talent, from over one hundred of our independent product, interior, furniture, print, fashion and jewellery designers  – all in the environs of Shoreditch Town Hall. Perfect for Christmas shopping, you will...

Sublime supermodel Carmen Dell’Orefice has celebrated her 80th birthday earlier this year and she looks positively amazing. A stunning concentration of grace, elegance and simple, pure, classic beauty. Not that the exhibition currently hosted by the London College of Fashion’s...

On Thursday 17th November, Disappearing Dining Club – founded in 2010 by Stuart Langley to bring together London foodies in reclaimed or unusual places – launched Too Much Is Never Enough in East London. The experience was absolutely stunning, from the originality of the concept...

Fashion Angel, has launched during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011. The brainchild of Alison Lewy, Fashion Angel will be home of mentoring, networking and business funding for both new and established fashion industry entrepreneurs. The concept sprang from Alison’s time as...

Celebrity favourite, Lauren Pope is collaborating with young womenswear brand Little Mistress to create a ‘Lauren Pope Collection’ for the label. This is Lauren’s first venture into fashion but she is already known for her TV work on TOWIE, DJing and for her entrepreneurial venture...

The last performance of the wonderful comic opera The Marriage of Figaro will take place on Thursday 10th November, so don’t miss out and book today!  Widely considered as one of the greatest opere buffe ever written, The Marriage of Figaro is based on a 1784 play by Pierre-...

-Shock introduces the X-Large GA-110HC watch. Living up to their reputation for big case designs, this Ana Digi “three-eyed” phenomenon measures in at a whopping 55 x 51.2 x 16.99mm size with an attention to detail that is second to none. Large anti-skid buttons provide easy embossed...

We Can be Heroes charts the rise of London’s club scene from punk in the late 1970′s to the New Romantics in the 1980′s as seen from an insider’s point of view. Graham Smith chronicled these incredible visually led times and its characters in his unofficial role as house...

SORAPOL’s first collection, « True Colours », has launched earlier this month during a great event at St George’s Church on Hanover Square. Inspired by the story of Coccinelle, the glamorous sole-survivor of a 1940′s jungle air crash, this collection...

Façonner is a fashion and interior design company comprised of PR, Editorial, Boutique and Styling. Appertaining to the meaning of its name, ‘to shape, to fashion, to mould, to manufacture’, Façonner’s purpose is to advocate good design. The company recently launched the...

“The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier” will be on view at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), from November 13, 2001 to February 12, 2012, as this first multimedia exhibition of one of the world’s most celebrated couturiers represents the DMA’s first foray into the art of...

On Monday, Piers Atkinson presented his Spring/Summer 2012 “Hot Voodoo” collection at The Sanderson Hotel with a cocktail reception and hat parade featuring swimming costumes by Zandra Rhodes and shoes by Charlotte Olympia and special guest Paloma Faith. Piers Atkinson’s Spring /...

Luxury lingerie brand Nichole de Carle London presented their new Spring/Summer 2012 collection at Lingerie Collective on the eve of London Fashion Week. Guests were able to view the new collections whilst feasting on Jude’s ice cream and sipping cocktails of Auchentoshan whiskey and...

This Spring/Summer 2012 collection marked for Pringle of Scotland the debut of its new design director. With already a great background in luxury houses including Marni, Chloe and Balenciaga, Alistair Carr was appointed in March 2011 with the mission to reinvent the brand for the 21st...

Burberry Prorsum presented a stunning collection for Spring/Summer 2012 in Kensington Gardens this Monday. One of the most enjoyable things, in my view, each season, is how Christopher Bailey managed to keep a balance between respecting the label’s over 150 years heritage...

Nicole Fahri’s show took place at the Royal Horticultural Society, the perfect venue for this vibrant Spring/Summer 2012 collection inspired by flowers. Mesmerised  by the profusion of flowers in full bloom she saw in a garden in New Delhi, the designer explored this theme with great...

If we were to choose just one word to describe Mulberry’s collection for Spring/Summer 2012, it would be « playful ». The atmosphere was set from the invitation, which consisted of an inflatable rubber ring. It continued with the ice-creams served to guests in...

Do I really need to claim my deep admiration and love for Vivienne Westwood’s work this season again? Well, yes. First because I am insanely happy year after year to rediscover the signature elements and details I love so much, the asymmetry, the stripes, the checks, her use of...

This season, Jaeger London is all about laid-back elegance with a touch of glamour. Stuart Stockdale has imagined for Spring/Summer 2012 a woman landing on the exclusive island of Mustique, which has attracted over the years so many British rock stars and royalties. The collection...

Spijkers en Spijkers have been known from the beginning, when the label was founded in 2000, for their graphic details and outstanding use of colours, and the collection for Spring/Summer 2012 is no exception. The Dutch twin sisters Truus and Riet Spijkers were inspired by the fascinating...

Called ‘Heirloom Blues’, PPQ’s collection for Spring/Summer 2012 was everything but depressing. It all started very quietly with quite classical outfits and pastel – yet gorgeous – tones when suddenly, on a particularly pumping soundtrack of 90′s...

Vauxhall Fashion Scout, now in its 11th edition, presented yesterday Ones to Watch winners for SS12 at Freemasons’ Hall, with the catwalk debut of Phoebe English, Alice Lee, Shao Yen and Malene Oddershede Bach. Selected by a panel of industry experts, Ones to Watch is a fantastic...

For its third edition in a row, this year’s Vogue Fashion Night Out was without a doubt a great success, with so many people in the streets celebrating fashion in the most cheerful mood. Celebrities and designers, such as Daisy Lowe, Gwyneth Paltrow, Henry Holland, Sir Paul Smith, but...

London College of Fashion just opened COLLEGE SHOP, its first ever pop up retail space in the heart of the West End - in Kingly Court just off London’s famous Carnaby Street. Launched on Thursday 8 September 2011, in the lead up to London Fashion Week, it will run for just over two...

London make-up brand Rimmel and Kate Moss are due to celebrate their collaboration by hosting a very exciting party on the eve of London Fashion Week.  On Thursday 15th September the only place to be seen will be Battersea Power Station where London’s most stylish elite, including...

On Monday, The British Fashion Council (BFC) announced the shortlist of nominees for the British Fashion Awards 2011. The event recognises the most influential people in fashion today and celebrates the reputation and development of British fashion. The winners will be announced at the...

Mary Portas, Telegraph columnist, famous retail adviser and UK’s self-proclaimed Queen of Shops, has just opened her own store at House of Fraser on Oxford Street. Alongside carefully selected pieces from her favourite brands, will be a capsule collection of clothes, shoes, bags and...