In the insanely hilarious spoof movie ‘rockumentary’, This is Spinal Tap, one member of the band, David St Hubbins, is complaining to anot...
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Britain’s newest star of track and field is on the cover of this week’s Evening Standard magazine. Dina Asher-Smith won three gold medals...
Read MoreFASHION: Cover girls and no more Burberry going up in flames
After all the fuss last month about Meghan’s wedding dress, how about these for long trains? Now I’m off for a short holiday…...
Read MoreFASHION: Wedding belles
Time was when if you didn’t wear a watch, you didn’t know the time. Now many people, especially millennials, don’t bother with them...
Read MoreFASHION: Watches – now rather more than a matter of time
When the news broke about movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s serial abuse of women, I can’t say I was shocked. I mean, what he has done was...
Read MoreFASHION: The dark side of the beauty business
Fashion Street, in the borough of Tower Hamlets, London E1, is indeed in one of the more fashionable (as in trendy) areas of the capital: Shoreditch. ...
Read MoreFASHION: Street-wise and the autumn magazines
OK, so this isn’t about fashion as in clothing – athletics vests will probably be next year’s thing – but people can be fashi...
Read MoreFASHION: Usain remains in while Tiger looks ever more out
On the home page of this blog is the back side of a perfectly normal pair of jeans. Jeans are an item of clothing that dates from the Gold Rush in C...
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