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Busiest Shopping Day Of The Year
December 17, 2011If you’ve already popped to the shops today you’ll already know that today is the busiest shopping day of the year. On the last weekend before Christmas shoppers are said to spend £1.5million a minute around the UK today as they cram in last minute shopping. According to research 11million of us will head to the shops today with a … read more»
Boxpark: Is It Worth A Visit?
December 6, 2011This weekend was one of firsts for me. The first time I’ve properly begun to celebrate Christmas and overdosed on mulled wine and mince pies and secondly the first time I’ve ever visited a pop up mall. Five years ago if you asked me what a ‘pop up’ shop/art gallery/café meant I would have no idea. But today pop up shops and the like … read more»
Tomorrow Is Buy Nothing Day
November 25, 2011People who are way more organised than we are have been telling us for weeks now that they’ve nearly finished their Christmas shopping. Apart from it massively showing up our own present buying skills we also think it’s just a little bit OTT. Wont they miss out on the panic of leaving it till the last minute? Not just a little … read more»
London Wins Best Shopping Award
November 18, 2011If you live in London you’ll already know that we are lucky enough to have some of the best, and biggest, shops in the world and now it’s been made official. London has scooped the award for Best Shopping Destination in Europe in the Globe Shopper City Index. London came top of a list of 33 retail destinations including other … read more»
44 Frocks Open Pop Up In Wapping
July 11, 201144 Frocks About Town is the brain child of Laura Henson and Vickie Flores who have been impressing us Londoners with their fashionable pop-up boutiques and shopping parties and now they’ve opened a new one in Wapping. 44 Frocks About Town will be selling last seasons designs from the likes of Marc Jabobs, Max Mara, Storm in a Tea Cup, … read more»
Carnaby Street Shopping Party
May 17, 2011This Thursday (19 May) Carnaby Street will be holding a special shopping party which will include 20% off at participating stores. Over 100 shops, bars and restaurants will be taking part in the event which runs between 5pm-9pm along the 12 streets of Carnaby. During the event there will also be live music, goodie bags, give aways and a … read more»
The Tshirt Store Opens in Covent Garden This April
March 10, 2011Covent garden seems to getting all the good brand shops currently. Most recently coming from the same birthplace as some other pretty successful brands (Cheap Monday, H&M) is Tshirt Store hailing form Sweden. This APril will see it’s first UK store and bring all it’s wonderfully simple T-shirts ands socks to central London. … read more»
Topman Gives Good Print
March 8, 2011Paisley, floral, upholstery inspired or even cowboy; there’s a print for every guy at Topman.com. Check out their new exclusive online collection titled ‘The Print Shirt’ it ranges from £26-£34 so it won’t leave a hole in your pocket. Wear them as stand alones, mix and match or just throw a hoodie over one. However … read more»
Lee Broom Debuts – The Shop At Bluebird
March 8, 2011I’ve had my eye on Lee Broom for a while. Since his days as the cutest VIP guestlist boy in London, to his transformation of one of the UK’s best bar chains into trendy venues and more recently his Elle Decoration award for best new UK designer. In current years Lee has emerged as one of London’s brightest new interior designers. … read more»
Jack In LA: Day One
March 8, 2011Deputy Editor, Laura, is going to be in LA for the next couple of days as part of a secret mission with the people over at Lucozade Sports Lite (all will be revealed soon we promise) and while she is there she will be reporting back all the best bits as well as collecting information about the fashion scene of one of the most stylist cities … read more»