Last week was the week I got rethinking pink – apparently – from millennial pink culottes to pink lippy. Being sort of duskier of complexion with a mop of brown hair, I am not exactly…
Milton Keynes, the ‘New City’, is celebrating 50 years this year, with a range of celebrations all summer long. Initially created as a commuter town to ease the housing congestion in London, Milton Keynes has…
Short girls shouldn’t even try culottes – or so I thought, until a few weeks ago until I scored the perfect pair. You see, being south of 5.5, I have dreaded anything that makes my…
Meaning it is also the time of the year you’ll see women (and men too!) in a last-minute dash to the shops for travel size toiletries and spending the Thursday afternoon lull at work online…
Bonkers about burgers? Never thought I would be until last week’s evening out at Meatcure Bedford. Located at 100 High Street in Bedford, Meatcure has actually been a part of the foodie scene since its…
I call this dress the Frankie dress – essentially it’s only an Italian label linen dress I scored in a boutique on Portobello Road this spring. The reason it is called the Frankie dress is…
As a Milton Keynes resident I feel ashamed to say this is the first year I’ve discovered Milton Keynes Handmade and Vintage Fair. Launched by Jacqui Lewis, the fair has been running since 2010. Only a…
Those who know me will know I am proudly Turkish and when the opportunity to collaborate with the Turkish shoemakers Çarıkçım came up, I was instantly excited. YEGÂNE, which means ‘unique’ in English, was my instant…
The second edition of Fashion Africa Conference organised by Jacqueline Shaw, founder of The Africa Fashion Guide and The Fashion Africa Conference and the author of Fashion Africa – came back much bigger than the 2013…
Ah, British summer – those elusive five days of the year when good ole Blighty rivals Marbella and men are out and about sans tops and women a brighter shade of lobster. Having lived on…
Good evening, Europe. Guten Abend, Bonsoir, buena noches, buanosera from (insert any European capital). Definitely a Eurovision Song Contest classic, this one, along with, “Here are the results of the… (insert any European country name)”, performers…
“Routine is going to kill you,” says the mysterious narrator early on in Clare Mackintosh’s second novel I See You. It is easy to think my husband and Mackintosh would have been thick as thieves had they…
For the 10th anniversary of Vogue India, iconic photographer Mario Testino and the ever influential millennial model Kendall Jenner had joined forces. The result? Beautiful imagery, admittedly, of Kendall alongside Indian actors Katrina Kaif and Sushant…
Today, asthma attacks will kill three people in the UK alone. World Asthma Day today brings with it a range of starling facts about the condition that affects 300 million people around the world and claims 489,000 lives…
Another Met Gala has come and gone, leaving with us a plethora of white carpet moments and celeb style wins and loses. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute benefit, a black-tie gala held the first…
Kate Eberlen’s Miss You is one for those who fell in love with David Nicholls’ One Day or Laura Barnett’s The Versions of Us. At the heart of this slow-burner of a novel is the…
Following the Pepsi fail where the company trivialised social activism to sell soda, Heineken goes and gets political, and surprisingly it is an amazing. You won’t find Kendall Jenner here, or a colour-coordinated fake ass…
Following my first day out in Olney, only a few weeks later, I decided to spend an afternoon in the quaint little town of Stony Stratford, not to be confused with Stratford in Warwickshire. Before…
‘There are things even love can’t do . . . If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when…
TIME beat me to it when it unveiled their annual 100 Most Influential People of 2017 list featuring, amongst others movers and shakers, the Chobani CEO fellow Turk (and Kurd) Hamdi Ulukaya. Hamdi Ulukaya puts…