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Heavy Metals: Chanel A/W 2011

Metallics are always expected to make a resurgence when autumn/winter comes around, but this year they are taking center stage as a glimmering rebuttal to the bare faced trends seen on most runways. Silver in particular has really become the colour de jour

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Style Clinic: Pulling off a Cape?

Q. I’m not 100% sure if a cape is for me (or if I can pull one off) but I’d like to give one a go anyway. I’m willing to spend up to €50 but no more. Have you spotted anything decent? Laura, 36, Dublin

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The Sweet 60's with Awear

For many the 60′s conjures up images of the perfect hair, sweet smiles and nights out at the drive-in theatre. Like music, fashion and style went through a major revolution and by the middle of the 60s, the mini was in and the geometric style bob of Vidal Sassoon was the look du jour. By the end of the sixties, the look

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Sportswear Chic

World Cup fever may be over for another four years but there’s no denying the influence such massive sporting events have on style. It’s more than just football making an impression, with fashion taking inspiration from practically every sport including boxing

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Get the look…Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore recently did the rounds on this side of the Atlantic promoting her latest movie. Whilst I’ve no idea what the movie’s about, Drew certainly managed to blaze a trail in the style stakes, wearing all sorts of fabulous outfits

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1960's Trend - inspiration from Prada

If you’re wondering how best to work this Autumn’s 1960’s trend, take a look at the Prada and Miu Miu catwalks for two different takes on it. It’s hard to believe Miucca Prada’s claim to have never seen the Mad Men series. She must have seen Tom Ford’s A Single Man. Either way

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Healthy Hair – Your crowning glory

They say that eyes are the window to the soul, if this is the case hair is a picture of how we are doing on the inside. Our hair has a tough time, taking the brunt of our everyday living; stress, pollution, sun damage and that’s without all the treatments we put in it; coloring chemicals, hair strengtheners, hair dryers, sprays and gels

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Return of the Tux Jacket

The lovely peeps at West Coast Cooler invited me to guest post on their site recently. Chuffed with the task at hand, I decided for my first post I’d take a look at the re-emergence of the classic white Tux jacket…

So far this year hot pants, maxi-dresses and

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The Cape - hot or hideous?

With each new season, it becomes more and more apparent that the fashion industry is out to test me. It’s almost as if, prior to designing the collections, all the fashion designers get together, in one of their fabulously chic townhouses no doubt, and decide to re-invent some hideous

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