Beyonce And I Have Something In Common! We're Both On Team 'Ban Bossy'.
I can't deny that I'm bossy. Actually, I can. I have before. And I will again. Because it's a really horrible weird insult which brings out a weird defence mechanism in anyone when accused. Because...
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Whereby I Become A Parody Of My Own Mind, If Not At Least My Own Style
Let me guess what you're thinking. Is it..... This woman has become a parody of her own predictability! She has taken what is one micro-trend - the double - and run with it like she has but not one...
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A Debrief Import: OAP Friendly With A Soupçon Of Sass
As I explained when I started at The Debrief as Fashion Editor, from time to time I will be sharing shoots that I have done there. This is a shoot I did in the spirit of specific scenario of having...
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An 'X' On A Text, Sure; But What About On A Work E-Mail?
How much e-affection should you dispense? And the debate rumbles on like the techno cum life story it has been for the past 15 years. Textually speaking, in the years since I got my first ever Nokia...
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Can I Even Call This A Fight Against Normcore? Or Am I Just Finding My Own...
Normcore. It's the Hot New Media Thing that's already been exhausted to death. Probably before you've even heard or understood it. Seriously, how much have we grown to love a trend with a buzzword at...
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What Do You Wear On A Date - That Might Not Actually Be A Date?
This shoot I styled for The Debrief deals with a common, ever tricksy scenario. We've all been on one. The date-you-aren't-sure-is-actually-a-date. You've texted like 40 times in the last two days and...
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'Those Shorts Make You Look Like A Whore' - Welcome To The World Of Outfit...
A version of this article originally appeared on The Debrief.Last weekend, I posted a picture of my midsection (riveting, I know) wearing a striped shirt and a polkadot neckerchief. Not to everyone's...
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Pop It Like It's Hot, Pop It Like It's Hot
Pop socks! 'Ello 'ello. They've come to a foot near me (read: mine) like a five-strong boy band. Just call my feet 5ive. My favourites are these Topshop burgundy ones, as they seem to go with...
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Is The Fitness Industry The New Fashion?
So many ways that title could have gone. But let's start with this. Yesterday morning I read about a new sporting activity in The New York Times called piloxing. My interest was instantly piqued; not...
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Because Who Said Personal Style Was Immutable?
I don’t really have a leg to stand on. As much as I hate my own personal style being defined (when asked, I normally trill rather grossly ‘I like having fun with fashion!’) I do it to others. As a...
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Little Bo Peep? She Got Urban
When the very awesome French fancies behind Claudie Pierlot's new Flirt collection sent me a sweet-as-a-sugar-mouse smocky dress to style up ahead of the collection's launch today, I was plunged into...
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The Rules of Engagement
Emoticons, hashtags and an avalanche of apps: the social media landscape is a confusing terrain. And whilst gender stereotypes may be outdated, but there’s no denying that when it comes to social...
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Pelvic Corsetry
IMHO, there really is nothing sexier than lace-up detailing. The recent Dior show sent me into paroxysms over its unexpected lower back and side detailing and I've long been a fan of lace-up blouses. I...
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Is A Man Really A Mansumer?
'I've had enough!' my boyfriend exclaimed last weekend, whilst reading an article in The Sunday Times about the rise of the 'mansumer' (male consumer, fyi.) 'Who seriously uses that word? It's total...
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Cinch Up, Get Smart
I cannot believe that for many years I was terrified of anything 'waisted'. Rock on, Dita Von Teese, I thought - but good god, never was a defined waist for me. But for the last few months (like many...
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What Does Your Filter Say About You?
Remember when the view was just the view? It wasn't, say, slightly washed out like a pair of Victorian stockings? Or, say, as bright as a new drop at Opening Ceremony? I know, what a retrograde...
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Sun's Out, Guns Out
There are two ways to approach trans-seasonal dressing and I embrace them both equally. Firstly, you can go bare leg (there's only about 3 months of the entire year where I won't attempt bare legs) in...
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Button Play
Who'd a thunk that when Alex Wang sent Behati et al down the runway in boxers and undone pyjama shirts (effect: minimal; effort: 1,000 man hours) that the trend would spread like a cat on fire. No, I...
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I Talk To Charlet Duboc About Ukraine's 'Ballsy' Fashion Week
A version of this article first appeared on TheDebrief.co.ukI haven't shared a huge amount of the articles I have been writing on The Debrief. It's nice to keep the platforms separate. But after I...
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Graffiti And Vikings
That's Copenhagen in a nutshell, for me, by the way: tons and tons of (really good) graffiti in an otherwise spotless city and tons and tons of (really good looking) men to whom my boyfriend gave a...
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