Category: Fashion

PMQ: Championing Culture and Creativity

Occupying thousands of square feet in Hong Kong’s Soho area is PMQ a new creative cultural hub. PMQ used to be the site of the police married quarters, a space where junior police officers from the mainland would house their families. In the early 2000s, long after the premise had been vacated from its original… Continue reading PMQ: Championing Culture and Creativity

Introducing Marta Larsson, Jewellery Designer Extraordinaire

There are some people you meet who are so incredibly passionate about what they do and their enthusiasm is contagious. Marta Larsson is one of these people. A self-made jewellery designer, Marta’s pieces are all made by hand, no two being the same. All of her pieces feature raw unpolished stones, her favourite medium to… Continue reading Introducing Marta Larsson, Jewellery Designer Extraordinaire

This is What a Footballer Looks Like

It’s incredibly frustrating when you tell people you play football and they respond with ‘why?’ or a series of other questions. Women playing football feels like a foreign concept to many – it must be, given the things I get asked quite regularly as of late. These questions range from, “but your boyfriend plays, right?”… Continue reading This is What a Footballer Looks Like

Ten Years of Style

The Sunday Times Style Magazine celebrated it’s tenth anniversary this weekend with a lovely press and poster campaign and a special issue of Style in today’s paper. I love this. Both the words and the ‘stitched’ typography. Probably even enough to start reading the Times ..

The Search for Second-hand Clothes

Inspired by the lovely Liv (@theendofthenew) I decided 2012 would be the start of me buying as few new clothes as possible. Women in the UK waste £1.6 billion on clothes they’ll never wear and 1.2 million tonnes of this goes to landfill. Not so good for wallets or the environment. In my bid to… Continue reading The Search for Second-hand Clothes

Plastic Fashion? No thanks.

For some strange reason, at this moment in time, littering the pages of many glossy magazines is plastic. Plastic fashion. I do love fashion. And I do love a good read through of a glossy magazine. But I don’t love plastic fashion. “Plastic, c’est fantastic“, “plastic is so S/S ’11“. It’s really not. Maybe it’s… Continue reading Plastic Fashion? No thanks.