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This Twitter Bot has got us all Hot and Bothered

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  In honour of Valentines day we have found a twitter bot that mashes together romance novel excerpts and dank video game memes. Try sending one to your crush and see what happens. Here are a few of our favourites to get you in the mood. You’re welcome.   For a moment, he wondered what would happen if he leaned down and took those full pink lips for the kiss he’d wanted to give her since day had broken. But before he could act, she whispered, “I can’t rocket jump.”   He wrapped her in his arms, pulling her tightly… Continue Reading →

Style Diary: 30 Days of Mirror Selfies

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At the beginning of the year I set a number of style goals for myself. These were to: Buy less and make better use of what I already have. Buy better quality, investment pieces and avoid fast fashion. Shop as ethically as possible. Be bolder in my styling and to have as much fun with my clothes as possible. Actually make use of all my accessories and jewellery. Experiment more with my makeup. Go to the hairdresser more often. Make more effort to style my hair. Paint my nails every week.   In order to keep myself accountable to my… Continue Reading →

2017’s Word of the Year has its roots in Fashion

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  Back in December the Oxford Dictionary announced their word of the year as ‘youthquake’. There has apparently been a huge upsurge in usage of the word in 2017 compared to 2016, however, having not encountered the word being used once in a sentence during 2017, we were as surprised as everyone else as what the Oxford data revealed. It wasn’t until reading about the state of language in 2017 in The New Yorker that we learnt that this word has its origins in fashion. According to Oxford dictionary, youthquake is defined as ‘a significant cultural, political, or social change arising… Continue Reading →

6th Position is Back for 2018

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  When I think about ballet an expression my old dance teacher used to describe it always springs to mind. The Pink Dream. Contemporary dance has never enjoyed the mass appeal of its ballet cousin so the term, however apt, may have been intended as derisive. What draws little girls and boys to ballet as children is indeed that elusive pink dream: pink tights, pink shoes, pink tutu, all wrapped up in a pink bow of grace and beauty. Although I have danced since the age of four I somehow escaped the pink dream and instead chased what my brother and I now… Continue Reading →