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Whereby I avoid red wine
I’d like to think I’m experimental when it comes to my fashion nous, but the truth is I’m a creature of habit. Now that I’ve realised I like tonal blocking and doubling patterns, I seem to have...
View ArticleThings I Miss About Being 15
There's no doubt that I look back upon my tricky teenage years with serious nostalgia. Like my own version of The Simple Live - sadly sans Richie's later impending emergence from the chrysalis, into...
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I Cleared Out My Hoisery Drawer And 2010 Threw Up On Me
Back in 2010, no doubt influenced by the trend-setting minx that is Alexa, my best friend and I were completely hooked on Tabio's sheer polkadot tights. Fun/ky and flattering (sheer tights are so much...
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Why The Morning Commute Must Be A Solo Endeavour
The way we all survive the grim reality of gainful employment - i.e. hauling ourselves out of beautiful beautiful bed every morning - is to have a routine. For some people that's rising at 5am,...
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The Story Of My First Pair Of Fishnets. By, Pandora.
I've wanted a pair of fishnet tights for about the past decade. For some inexplicable reason, whilst I've managed to spend hundreds that I don't have on gold-capped leopard print shoes, multi-coloured...
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The Debrief
If you follow me on Instagram (@pinsykes, whatcha waiting for!) you'll know that I've been putting in some seer-e-owse elbow grease over on some mysterious new platform. Well, said platform launched...
View ArticleIs This The Year We Turn Everything Into A Selfie?
I've said it before and I'll say again. I like a selfie just as much as the next person - OK, more - but there's nothing like over-egging a bloody verbal trend now, is there? We've done it with LOL...
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Love Me A Neckerchief
I've long been a fan of the cheery neckerchief, whether it be in paisley print, or incarnated as the faux Hermes cousin (the real deal hasn't happened yet.) I could blame these - Pernille, Leandra and...
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Double Stripes AKA The Umpire Special
Six hours into my 24 hour return journey Nairobi -- London/LFW and I thought I'd distract myself from the sweaty airport situation with a catch-up blog post. Please ignore the fact that my hair is...
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Tourist Traps x Belted Macs
Every single Saturday without fail I trot off down Portobello... instead of staying the hell inside. It's on my doorstep so you'd think I'd remember that the market is the epicentre of meandering. A...
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Sexpot Saks Potts
All I want in the world - OK definitely not all, but my most long-standing, most-Googled, most yearned-like-the-wind-for wish list item - is a bright blue fur coat. (Apologies, if you are against fur -...
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The Sartorial Tale Of A Mother And A Daughter.
A few weeks ago, I went on a family holiday to Kenya. The day before I left - and not a jot before, obviously - I started to think about what I would take on holiday. I mentally scanned my wardrobe, as...
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Same Same But Different
Double leopard is nothing new for me, as anyone who follows my sartorial shit regularly, will know. (That said, I am still thrilled to see the louche Mr Tom Form amping it up further for AW14.) Forgive...
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T.I.A.
I skipped (if almost 24 hours of travelling each way can be called 'skipping') off to Kenya for 6 days with my family before London Fashion Week, which was the most incredible interlude amidst the...
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Richie! Can you hear me?
I'm not going to say I thought I was above the whole wearing-poolslides-when-not-on-holiday thing but... OK, I kind of did. Spot the mega hypocrite, yet again. Because when I saw these sci-fi dental...
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Should We All Just Admit We're D**kheads?
There’s been a slew of articles about Simon Cowell recently. The famously camp bachelor with little Cuban heels and a glittery pair of moobs named Squiddly and Diddly – oops sorry, those are his tiny...
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Marshmallow Girl
There's this unnerving new term whereby 'chubby' (read, Size 8) K-Pop girls are now called marshmallow girls. It sort of makes me lol, albeit uneasily, particularly because it should really just refer...
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The Pieces I Want To Make Love To From AW14
I wept with kitsch-induced joy over Jeremy Scott's McDonalds-drunk Moschino debut and I'd do anything to eat some branded spaghetti from Karl's custom-built supermarche; but what of the looks that I...
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That's IT? Why It Might Be Time To Break Away From The 'It' Item...
I've written an article for the April issue of Company about the lure of the 'it' item - the 'it' bag (first one ever was Prada's nylon knapsack circa 1996, FYI) the 'it' foods (hello bloody kale and...
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Ways To Wear Double Leopard
I recently styled a shoot for The Debrief (shot by Baker and Evans and starring supercool Lydia Graham of Models 1) on ways to wear double leopard.As anyone can tell, it's a cause close to my heart....
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