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 humble it can be hard…
Nene Granville on Redundancy, Representation & Role Models in Fashion
Nene is one of Fashion PR’s most popular women. With nearly two decades of experience and a client roster spanning luxury and high street brands, she recently set up her own agency, Industry Menu—a pay-as-you go service which is swiftly disrupting the old business model. But while she may be making all the right…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Laura Fantacci on Imperfect Motherhood & the Dangers of Comparison
Laura Fantacci was an early digital adopter, starting her blog Wearing It Today back in 2009. With a background in fashion editorial, she built her community while working as Shopping Editor at Red magazine. Seeking more balance after she had her first child, Laura set up Wardrobe ICONS, a multi-faceted…
Emily Cronin on the Joys & Challenges of Raising Twins While Working in Fashion
Motherhood is by far the biggest challenge that women have contacted me to cover since I launched WorkWorkWork—but rather than confronting the emotional, physical and professional shifts that come with kids, Emily Cronin, mother of three-year-old twins and fashion features editor for The Telegraph magazines, suggested I approach it from a logistical…