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How do you respond to setbacks? Me? I dust myself down, review what’s happened and go back to the drawing board. And that’s where I find myself today. When I set up the +Black blog, I was hoping, and working in the background, to develop, and retail, products that I thought ‘my demographic’ of women […]
MoreBored, bored, bored with seeing only young(ish), beautiful women everywhere and people mercilessly criticising older women. Fed-up with seeing ageing famous women butchering themselves with horrendous ‘cosmetic’ procedures – yes, I do mean Madonna, Nicole Kidman, Faye Dunaway et al. I am feminist to the core – and, no, this doesn’t mean that I have […]
MoreOver the weekend, I noticed an interesting promotion of sunglasses from Karen Walker using the more … mature model wearing the latest in sunglasses design and style for Spring/Summer 2013. Allied to an article in the Financial Times – Luxury profits from baby boomers: glasses are the new handbags – discussing the impact baby-boomer spending is having […]
MoreI am in shock. Desperate for plus size, reasonable quality, plain black, summer t-shirts in 100% cotton, I purchased the EZ V T by Planet, seen above, from the States. It has cost me c.£160! I hesitate to name the store I bought it from as they charge what might be seen as a perfectly […]
MoreI completed this Street Survey from Models Of Diversity today. The survey asks just four questions: Would you like to see high street stores use a wider range of models in their advertising campaigns? Do you think that people with a disability are represented fairly by the fashion industry? Looking at the images of models […]
MoreWhilst you enjoy this photo of the fabulous Beatrix Ost – who is all over the place lately, not least on the Advanced Style blog – perhaps you would turn your mind to my current problem and give me some advice? I have been thinking about a incorporating a couple of new elements to my […]
MoreI have been seeing a lot of images of the stunningly beautiful Linda Rodin recently – she seems to combine style and ageing so effortlessly and without, apparent, surgery. I have nothing against surgery – it might be a great solution for some and people are free to spend their own money however they wish […]
MoreI received another of Hannah Ensor’s illustrations at the weekend, inspired by the ease and beauty of the new Winser London range featured here last week. I’m calling this one ‘Grown-up Lives’. Both name and inspiration seemed entirely apposite to me as I had been thinking about company structures and how outdated traditional capitalism and […]
MoreHow great to welcome online a new retail experience for stylish, grown up, women: Winser London. Looking around the website, there are some lovely relaxed styles and a whole section devoted to SHOP BLACK – marvellous to see … finally someone is getting the concept most dear to me. From their Style Agenda section, they […]
MoreI went to an event at The Queen Elizabeth Hall yesterday, at the Southbank Centre in London. It was part of the WOW Festival and featured the premiere of a documentary film on Alice Walker, Beauty In Truth. Following the film was a Q&A with Alice Walker and the director of the film, Pratibha Pramar. […]
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