If the thought of chipped nail varnish brings you out in a cold sweat, panic not, Luxsure has some good news for you. Red Carpet Manicure has launched at Harvey Nichols, so you can get a salon worthy manicure from the comfort of your own home. What could be more perfect than that? This gel...

All six national winners are now announced for the H&M Design Award 2012! In this news video, they show their collections to the Grand Jury in London! Jury members are Hilary Alexander, Fashion journalist; Christopher Kane, Designer; Susie Lau, Fashion blogger; Kristopher Arden Houser,...

As a self confessed beauty and macaron junkie, I have been delighted to find out that these two worlds have merged to create something unforgettable. The iconic French patisserie Ladurée has recently launched an exciting line of their own cosmetics in collaboration with Japanese beauty...

Crystallized beauty with Harrods and Swarovski. Shopping for a new face cream can often be tedious; after all, how many products do we have to look at before we’ve found The One? An important part of shopping for a new lotion or potion is to assess the packaging before making your...

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...

Fabergé ouvre une nouvelle boutique à Londres La mythique maison de joaillerie a annoncé son retour historique dans le quartier de Mayfair à Londres. L’histoire de la maison à Londres s’est terminée en 1915 lorsque le dernier magasin Fabergé à fermé ses potes....

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...

The Atlas Gallery in Central London will be displaying from  the 3rd to the 26th November 2011, unique vintage prints exhibited for the first time ever from Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill fated journey to the South Pole which took place a 100 years ago. The exhibition is to coincide...

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-...

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...

Faisant suite à l’inauguration à Rome en novembre 2010 et à Paris en février 2011 des nouvelles boutiques de la griffe, le nouveau concept de design des boutiques Sergio Rossi fait ses débuts à Londres au numéro 207A de Sloane Street. Le nouveau concept store britannique de...

To celebrate the opening of their new retail concept, SERGIO ROSSI invited the fashion community in London for Frieze to mingle with cinema, art and design dignitaries at a cocktail party in their 207A Sloane Street, UK flagship store. A playful tribute to femininity and an alluring homage...

Idea Generation Gallery in East London, will be showcasing a selection of artists and band album covers produced by Storm Thorgeson and StormStudios under the “BIG&SMALL” event title, from the 21st of October to the 13th of November 2011. An event not to miss if you are a collector of unique and music related commissioned artworks as they will all be available for purchase.

The Lou Dalton Spring Summer 2012 collection finds inspiration from two seemingly contrasting principal sources; the harshness and desperation of the 1984 Miners’ Strike, and Matthew Bourne’s menacing male ensemble in Swan Lake. Yet both are symbolic struggles, whether it be the...

John Rocha SS 12 John Rocha immersed the audience at Somerset House in the imaginative world of painters Pierre Soulages and Hank Williams, ensuring great showmanship and a lasting dramatic effect. Supermodel Abbey Lee Kernshaw set the tone as she opened the show resembling a serene...

It was an utterly feminine and delicate collection that opened the second day of London Fashion Week with a supreme use of paisley prints on silk. The inspiration came from the notion of the ‘sixties uniform’ albeit in a much more romantic package. The London label (which has been back...

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...