Summer is now with us and the weather conditions are excellent. So it is time for us all to unpack our summer clothes from the dusty suitcase and start to enjoy this season in style. However, if your wardrobe is looking a little dated (a bit like my own!), why not go out and splash out on something to give you that feel good factor.
The one timeless piece that should be a most definite piece in any girl’s wardrobe is the classic Maxi Dress. These are without a doubt, the key item that you can wear to any occasion over the summer holidays. Be it to the beach, on holidays, a night out in town or even to a wedding. With the vast amount of Maxi Dresses to choose from these days, you are sure to find the perfect one for you.
I therefore give you Noelle Adam. She is a brand-new award-winning designer that has been accredited with winning “Best Emerging Talent” from Dubai Fashion Week 2009. Noelle is producing some amazing Maxi Dresses. Her designs are stunningly bohemian, and comprise of tribal, safari and butterfly-print as well as block colours and nudes. The entire Spring / Summer 2010 Collection offers limited edition quality designs at high-street prices.
I absolutely love Noelle. Having a few items of her jewellery myself (which are just as luscious), I must admit, she is my new favourite designer. So to have the opportunity to interview her really delighted me. I myself am unsure which maxi Dress suits me best, so based my questions around this. They are as follows:-
-Who is your inspiration?
“For my Maxi’s I am not inspired by a particular person. If I would be then, I think, I would mostly be inspired by myself because I wear all my Maxi’s myself.”
My inspiration for a few of my Maxi’s comes for example from:
- A smart casual lunch with the girls (my Double Dutch Maxi dress)
- Cruising in a convertible car (my Halter Maxi Dress)
- A sunny field of flowers (my Classic Maxi Dress)
- My Daughter’s Children’s Books (my Beads Queen Maxi Dress)
- The Victorian Age (my Majestic Maxi Dress)
- My beautiful garden with lots of flowers and butterflies (my FlowerBomb Maxi Dress)
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John Richmond, better known for dressing the stars - Madonna, George Michael, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Annie Lennox, to name a few, has now unleashed his new Fragrance, called rather simply, John Richmond.
Call it his signature, because this scent is to smell as his designer range is to High fashion. This will become a leading fragrance because the consumer will always and eventually spot the quality.
A fruity deep fresh fragrance packed with exciting Grapefruit, magnolia and sand white lily. Hints of distinctive sandalwood and amber also shine through to produce a classic, feminine, seductive and modern eau de parfum.
The bottle is sealed with a silver metal lock – so no danger of being ‘borrowed’ - and comes with a gift, a John Richmond designed silver plated metal bracelet on which the lock can be hung as a pendant.
John Richmond is available nationwide from Harvey Nichols, Harrods, Debenhams and is priced from £34 for 30ml.
Best let the man himself have the last word on this fabulous new fragrance;
“JOHN RICHMOND IS A PERFUME “TO WEAR”, LIKE THE COLLECTIONS,
IT IS SOMETHING THAT A WOMAN DEDICATES, ABOVE ALL, TO HERSELF, IT EXALTS HER PERSONALITY
AND COMPLETES HOW SHE LIVES THESE MODERN TIMES”
Described as “The Dom Perignon of the Tea World” by the Sunday Times, These amazing, exotic Teas by Choi Time make a special gift – something a little bit different.
All these loose leaf teas are award winning, year after year. The joy is watching each different bulb unfurl and produce a great tasting, health giving Tea.
The Benefits of these teas include aiding digestion, weight loss, anti ageing and high anti oxidant levels. The fact that they taste great obviously helps!
The teas can be purchased online and I can recommend the Gift packs, which would be great for Valentines or Mothers day.
Aesthetically stunning, great tasting and good for you. Ditch the PG tips….
With Valentines and Mothers day nearly upon us, the Clarisonic is the ultimate gift if you are wishing on banking some brownie points!
From the makers of the revolutionary Sonicare toothbrush, The Clarisonic is set to change the beauty and facial care market dramatically. This is the must have beauty product for 2010.
The clarisonic leaves the skin looking younger and feeling smoother. It is so gentle that it can be used twice daily. Its cleansing performance (it lifts 6 times more than manual cleansing) means any beauty products are absorbed quicker into the skin, This will unlock the benefits of every skin care cream you own.
The ultimate selling point has to be how this great device deals with wrinkles, dry patches and visible pores. The results are amazing – I now look more stunning than ever.
Leading Dermatologists have got right behind the Clarisonic, recommending that a daily gentle application is the essential first step at home, prior to use of skin creams and lotions.
With up to 61% better absorption of skin creams, your loved ones skin will soon reap the benefits. The results really are mind blowingly good.
This beauty device will do to the Health and beauty market what the mobile telephone has done to the telecoms market. Revolutionary.
The Clarisonic skin cleansing system is available from SpaceNK stores nationwide at £150. (for full list of stockists, please go to http://www.spacenk.co.uk)
For the wine lover you may like to consider one of the superb Vinopolis gift sets this Christmas. Over the past 10 years the company has built a sterling reputation for its famed wine tour and tasting under dramatic Victorian railway arches on London’s Bank End, a short walk from Tate Modern and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
This year the company have compiled a good range of gift sets for most pockets:
Under £50
Try something that little bit different this year. Teach someone about the joy of wine by giving them two tickets to the Vinopolis Grapevine Tour. For just £39, your loved one and a friend can enjoy a ‘How to Taste Wine’ session, five regular wine tastings, a Bombay Sapphire cocktail and a Vinopolis tasting notebook.
Under £60
Treat wine lovers with The Grapevine Vinopolis in a
Box – enjoy two tickets to the Grapevine Tour with five wine tastings and a Bombay Sapphire cocktail, and a bottle of Vinopolis red or white wine to take home.
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