Robert and Pearl Williams were hitched at 12 noon on the dot on February 18, 1950, and the couple returned to the village’s historic St Mary’s Church to mark their anniversary on Wednesday last week.
The sun shone as Robert and Pearl, who was clutching a red and white bouquet, walked arm-in-arm retracing the steps they first took as a married couple all those years ago...
As we're too impatient to wait six months to see what we'll be wearing next, we turn to the pre-fall collections to point us in the right style direction. These future splurge purchases await you …
Plaids Please
A few years ago, I tried the style blogging thing. It was hardly an attempt because the total number of outfits I posted was zero, due to how ridiculous I felt pretending every time a stranger passed by that I, clearly not a model, was modelling for something and not just taking photos of myself -- because that would just be weird and kind of narcissistic, right? But I couldn't ignore that there was an opportunity there, and the world was responding quite positively to other people doing this: they were getting deals with brands, designing fashion collections, and even fronting mainstream magazine covers. Turns out, people loved looking at good style.
Bill Cunningham's portraiture in the 1970s was the very first iteration of the modern street style phenomenon. Surely style existed before then -- but it's like the well-known analogy of "If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it still make a sound?" Well, yes. The same goes with style: before the explosion of street style in the 2000s, great style was something most people only associated with their grandmothers, Audrey Hepburn or a fictional character.
Vintage style granny chic fashion like thick-rimmed glasses, floral tea dresses, frumpy cardigans and kitten heels have featured heavily on the catwalks for many seasons. Taking a cue from this popular sartorial style, we now have celebrities who have extended this trend to beauty as well.
Popstars Rihanna and Lady Gaga, singer Kelly Osbourne, reality TV star Kylie Jenner are among the many young women, who have been spotted with grey hair. And we're not talking about a few odd pesky strands; they're going the whole hog and dyeing their hair in this stale shade of silver! Closer home, designer Nandita Mahtani has been known to proudly sport grey streaks. Why is this dull hue becoming such a rage amongst young women?
A photo of rock n' roll star and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl wearing a Casa Nueva T-shirt during the band's late frontman Kurt Cobain's 1992 wedding to Courtney Love in Hawaii has been making the rounds on Athens residents' Facebook pages recently.
A photo of former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic performing while wearing what appears to be the same T-shirt has sat on Casa Nueva Restaurant and Cantina's walls for years, though that photo is now located in the restaurant's main office.
According to Egyptian news site Ahram Online, an unmarried Hamdi was “tired of being put in a pigeonhole by her family.” She was reportedly inspired by family squabbles over the fact that she is "late" for marriage.
"I just want to appear in the way my family and mother, a microcosm of society, have always pushed to see me in," Hamdi, an interior designer who is pursuing a Master's degree in performance arts, was quoted as saying by the site.
The new campaign from luxury jewellery retailer Tiffany & Co. made headlines this weekend. The ad features seven real life-couples who have all proposed, including a same sex male couple – a first for the lux brand.
The gay couple, two dashing New York City gentleman, are part of a push from Tiffany to showcase diverse love stories, a spokeswoman said.
Given that every movie critic I know is busy handicapping the winners of the Golden Globes on Sunday, I thought I might as well chime in, fashionwise. After all, the pool of well-dressed actresses at this event is, perhaps, the greatest of any awards show, given the best-actress-trifecta of stars in dramatic films, comedy/musical films and TV shows. Arguably, it’s a bigger fashion event than the Oscars, at least when it comes to frocks and frippery.
Especially because, for the first time in a long while, pretty much every woman on this list is a relatively adventurous dresser — and, perhaps more important, not tied to a specific brand. Hallelujah!
High-low collaborations are no longer a trend. They’re just reality. For most fashion brands and mass retailers, collaborations take up a tiny part of the big-picture marketing strategy. One that happens to get a particular group of shoppers very, very excited. While these sorts of partnerships are often cemented more than a year before they hit the sales floor, here’s who we’re hoping joins up with the two most significant collaborators in 2015.
TARGET
High fashion excites us to no end, and when it comes in the form of fresh new talent, it has us practically jumping with joy. Over the past year or so, the fashion industry has nurtured some exceptional young talent that is poised to spread its wings and take flight as we enter a new year. Here’s a look at the most promising young labels to look out for:
Inaaya by Naushaba Brohi
