From Caravan To Catwalk: Fashion Designer Amy Powney On Making It Against All Odds
Amy Powney is the powerhouse creative director behind London based independent label Mother of Pearl which has just presented yet another critically acclaimed Fashion Week show. When you think of fashion designers, it’s almost impossible to ignore the visions of gilded lifestyles and Zoolander-esque theatrics, but Amy is so resolutely grounded and…
Infertility, Early Pregnancy & Social Media: How To Cope
Consuming social media when you can’t get pregnant can be a hugely miserable experience; trying to engage with social media when you’re in the early stages of pregnancy presents further challenges. Here Katherine Ormerod talks about her experiences and offers a frank, highly personal account of her journey to motherhood…
Does Wearing Old Clothes Make You a Bad Influencer?
Do you feel frustrated when you see your favourite Instagrammers wearing something you can’t buy? Or would you value the fact that your style inspo is sporting a piece from their archives that’s stood the test of time? Does the endless churn of new clothes on social media get you down, or would…
Beauty Vlogger Claire Marshall On Dealing With Family Tragedy Alone
Claire Marshall is one of You Tube’s early adopters; a beauty mega-influencer with over 900k subscribers and more than 700k followers on Instagram to boot, she’s worked with brands from as Sephora to Samsung. Here she talks about dealing with her mother’s Alzheimer’s, how as an adoptee she’s begun to connect…
Lucy Williams on Why Instagram Life’s Not All a Beach
One of the U.K’s most successful bloggers, Lucy Williams’ style is shorthand for a particular brand of effortless cool with a side of wanderlust. For the past seven years she’s been blogging on her lifestyle platform Fashion Me Now and has built a loyal audience which follows her global jaunts…
Roxie Nafousi On Depression, Heartbreak & Social Media
Blogger, former celebrity stylist, Marie Claire contributor and mental health awareness advocate Roxie Nafousi, appears to live a gilded life through the frames of social media. But her younger days were blighted by racial bullying, disordered eating, depression and low self-esteem. When at 23 everything unravelled, she struggled to keep…
South African Adventure: The Ultimate Guide
If you follow my on Instagram you *may* know that I’ve just come back from a once-in-a-lifetime trip to South Africa. It has pretty much ruined me for any other holiday ever again (the safari at Chitwa Chitwa pretty much took the biscuit!). Lot of people have asked me for…
Laura Jackson on Crippling Anxiety & Dealing with Stage Fright
Laura Jackson is a creative polymath with a career spanning TV presenting, modelling, writing a food column for Marie Claire and hosting the infamous Jackson&Levine supper clubs with her partner in crime, Radio 1 DJ, Alice Levine. With her first cookbook about to be published, a tie-in with Habitat coming…
A Pampelone Holiday Wardrobe is All About Polished Ease
From beach to poolside, barefoot village wander to romantic dinner, when it comes to holiday dressing, what you really want is a collection of easy, throw-on smocks and dresses so you can focus on the important things—aka sun, sea and ahem. Here’s a selection of summer-ready looks that cut the…
Jessica Lemarié-Pires on Overcoming Her Mother’s Suicide & Being More Than Just a ‘WAG’
Footballer’s wife, ex-model and mother to three gorgeous children—when it comes to having it all, Jessica Lemarié-Pires’ life looks pretty picture perfect. But, five years ago in the wake of her mother’s suicide, her life fell apart. Here Jess discusses for the first time what it was like to grow…