by | Sep 29, 2022 | Designer Musings, Dresses, Dressing for Special Occasions, Ethical Fashion, Fashion Designers
Fashion design is well known for being a competitive industry; added to which some fashion designer’s, are often labelled as isolated individuals who have an inability to share ideas with fellow fashion designers, for fear of their ‘design ideas’...
by | Aug 11, 2022 | Beauty and Skin Care, Bespoke Clothing, Designer Musings, Dressing for Special Occasions, Ethical Fashion, Fashion and Older Women, Lifestyle
Why you are fabulous as you get older! The featured image is of me and my darling mum, who at the time was in her late 70’s, I designed and made the dress mum is wearing for my cousin’s wedding. You could say that I am biased as after all its my mum, and...
by | Jan 21, 2022 | Bodyshapes, Designer Musings, Dressing for Special Occasions, Lifestyle, Trends
What is going on people… has everyone suddenly become a sports fanatic, are leggings now the substitute for all forms of dressing, and dressing up? There was a time when leggings and trainers were worn because you were going to the gym, jogging, walking, cycling, that...
by | Jan 12, 2021 | Bespoke Clothing, Black Women in Fashion, Dressing for Special Occasions, Female Designers
Following on from the previous article Black Women in Fashion https://coralturner.com/black-women-in-fashion-a-portrait-of-dressmakers/ I would be remiss to not write about Ann Lowe, an American Designer who dressed one of America’s First Ladies, Jacqueline...
by | Apr 27, 2018 | Bodyshapes, Designer Musings, Dresses, Dressing for Special Occasions, Fashion and Older Women
Ageing and Women’s Fashion – Who makes up these crazy rules? ‘I’d like to meet the people who police our wardrobes telling us what we can and cannot wear, especially when women reach a ‘certain age’. As for the certain age,...
by | Apr 28, 2014 | Dressing for Special Occasions
As an independent London UK, fashion designer of one-off dresses I don’t follow seasons or fashion trends, so it is amusing to me that the fashion speak is all about black and white dresses or the monochrome look for 2014. So how do you wear the monochrome look?...
