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Autumn 2019's Trends in Scents

Because Girls Just Want to Have Fun... And a New Perfume! A few decades away you might be thinking that diamonds were a girl's best friend. But every modern lady and a fan of Carrie Bradshaw and Blair Waldorf knows that shoes, perfumes and purses are even bestier! Fashion Has It… From London and New York to Paris and Milan, the streets of the...

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Why the WOMAN trade fair only shows 100 brands

Antoine Floch teamed with business partner Olivier Migda to launch the MAN/WOMAN series of trade shows seven years ago after spending several years in the trade show circuit and noticing an element of overcrowding in the market. “For many years I was listening a lot, not talking too much, just listening to what brands were saying, what buyers...

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Womenswear sales rise

The sale of womenswear in the UK has risen by 3 per cent in the last season. This was the conclusion that the UK-based market information specialist FashionTrak came to following a study of the latest industry figures.The new season's trends include a broad range of looks, from flirty dresses and florals to abstract prints and exotic looks,...

Fashion

Fashion Changes Shape

The hourglass figure has officially been declared dead. The government-backed National Sizing Survey has revealed that the average British woman's waistline has expanded by more than 6in since the 1950s; busts, hips and height, by contrast, have changed only slightly. The result is that the typical female form is almost straight, in contrast to...

Fashion

Be A Lady

Dress like a lady was the imperative from designers for the new season. Polished ladylike looks mean princess coats, tweed skirts, beautiful blouses, plaids, Bloomsbury dresses and glamorous evening dresses. Time to get precious!

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Of An Age: What Women Really Want

A recent article in the Guardian about the lack of clothes available for women over thirty on the high street raises some very poignant issues. A case of what women want versus what is available could possibly be a fashion dilemma for an older woman who wants to be fashion fabulous but cannot relate to high street manufacturing and does not want...

Fashion

Where Is The Sex?

This season is off to a boring start. The summers of easy living, sexy clothes and nonchalant dressing are a thing of the past. The sex has been replaced by the prim, proper and predominantly prudent. Forget flirty dresses, tarty tops and jeans slung so low one could easily mistake you for a builder. It's the season of demure dressing. If the...