I’ve been fascinated by the growing interest in beauty trends filtering from the catwalk straight to the consumer in recent seasons, so I was thrilled to be commissioned by H&M magazine to write a piece on the subject. (more…)
An exciting announcement! Liberty London Girl and I have been plotting and planning a special event for Fashion Business Club. The networking club for fashion industry professionals will be hosting an intimate chit-chat between us next Thursday on the subject of blogging, social media, the future of PR and, well, what else do you want to know? (more…)
When Brian McCloskey visited his parents in Ireland the year before last, he boxed up his decades-old collection of Smash Hits magazines and shipped it back to California without having much of a plan in mind. Then he decided to scan every issue, upload onto a blog (more…)
One of the hot topics of discussion in my Q&A with Vogue’s Robin Derrick last week was that of old school journalism versus new school blogs. Robin observed that with the beauty industry especially, brands and consumers are talking directly to each other via blogs and Twitter, effectively making traditional beauty journalism redundant (you can read all the tweets here – read from the bottom up). (more…)
