I couldn't help but share this wonderful shop display with you - all the way from Edinburgh! This is the current display at Clarks on Princes Street and gosh how lovely is that bicycle with its matching fabric seat and mudguards? Plus a wicker basket brimming with flowers and shoes is enough to get your heart racing. Those delightful canary yellow ( Read more... )

If you're on the look out for some cycle-friendly fashion, check out the knee-skimming  tea dresses at Dorothy Perkins at the moment. And these block-heeled brogues from ASOS will be perfect when summer gives way to autumn, but in the meantime they're great on cooler days when sandals just won't do. Plus they also come in black and white, so the ( Read more... )

Few people embody fashion quite so fully as the glorious Parisian stylist Catherine Baba, so imagine my joy when I stumbled across photos of her rocking that iconic style on a beautiful vintage dutch-style bicycle. Anyone who ever doubted that heels and bikes are a natural match, take note, Baba does it like a pro.


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What could possibly be more delicious than three supermodels in one room, surrounded by designer gear? For their Fall 2010 campaign, Louis Vuitton have gathered Christy Turlington, Karen Elson, and Natalia Vodianova for what is for me, one of the most exciting photo shoots since Cecil Beaton paid a visit to Ascot on the set of My Fair Lady. That ( Read more... )

....stay as dry as possible.

Is anyone still cycling in this weather? The elements tend to have a huge effect on the volume of cyclists struggling to get to work at rush hour, and while I refuse to be branded a "fair-weather cyclist", there are times when you just long to arrive at your destination without needing to then towel yourself down.

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I got my lovely Miss L Fire Renaissance shoes in the post from Office only to discover that my age-old problem has not entirely disappeared: sometimes shoes thatshould fit perfectly end up loose around the heel, meaning that there's always a risk that they'll fall off. Majorly irritating. Especially as I've been lusting after these shoes for ages ( ( Read more... )

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I read an interesting article on The Guardian website, called "Real women wear flat shoes". It makes a good read, even though I don't totally agree with the concept, primarily because flat shoes have risks of their own, as the contradictory piece, also on The Guardian demonstrates. I get pains in my feet and calves when I wear flats for too long, ( Read more... )