by Coral Turner | Jun 16, 2024 | Bespoke Clothing, Bodyshapes, Couture Clothing, Tailored Coats, Winter Coat
‘Dressing your personality’, how does it feel saying those words to yourself? This is why I ask – I was commissioned to make a coat for a fellow designer, my friend Karen Huggins children’s wear designer for ‘Little Huggins’. Karen...
by | Mar 29, 2021 | Dressing Above the Keyboard, Style Tips, Uncategorized
As some of us get ready to emerge from our cocoon of dressing above the keyboard with funky fashionable tops/shirts, hidden pyjamas bottoms and fluffy slippers; will your wardrobe choices be that which is fashionable, or that which is stylish? What’s the difference? I...
by | Jan 26, 2021 | Bespoke Clothing, Lifestyle, Womens Dressing Gowns
First Time at a Couture Designers Studio When I was first contacted by Emma she wanted to know if I was up to the challenge of making her a grand dressing gown; with her specific criteria, all of which will be revealed as Emma shares her story, in her own words....
by | Sep 30, 2020 | Black Women in Fashion, Caribbean Fashion, Designer Musings, Female Designers
Mother and Daughter talk Style and Fashion My parents have always had a wonderful sense of style and fashion combined, they made dressing look effortless; always chic it was the norm for them and their fellow West Indians ‘to pop some style’. They didn’t need formal...
by | Jul 25, 2020 | Dressing Above the Keyboard
There’s a new phrase circulating around your wardrobe, it’s called ‘dressing above the keyboard’, well it was new to me when I first learned of it. You see in this time of still working from home for some of us, where Zoom and Skype have become...
