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Donna’s Denim Diary

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Simeon Farrar

Donna Ida Thornton has coined a reputation as London’s Jean Queen – and now she wants to pass on her advice to us, her loyal, denim-clad subjects!
Hosting a careers day in her head office this Friday (3rd May 2013) she’ll be dishing out advice to aspiring designers and entrepreneurs whilst giving an insight into what it takes to head-up your own

Great Danes

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Oh Denmark, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways:

The Killing
Noma (now opening its second restaurant ‘Gustu’ in La Paz – worth a plane ticket to Bolivia)
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (a.k.a Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones. HOT.)
Day Birger et Mikkelsen.

And now….. Hummel.
‘What’s that’ you ask? Our new favourite retro trainer brand, that’s what. Think cool 90s b-ball styles in

Olivia Grant ventures into the desert

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Okay, so I’ve extended my trip to Dubai. Having been given the opportunity to journey deep into the Dubai Desert, I find myself ringing Emirates Airline. ‘Hello? Yes…I currently have a flight back to London this afternoon…is there any chance it is refundable…?’ This is a very slippery slope.
A couple of hours later and I am in the back of

Sweet Therapy

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Feeling down in the dumps or sick of the April showers? Forget the Lempsip, banish the bugs with The Robin Collective’s Marshmallow Apothecary. With pop-ups across London, these medical marvels offer free consultations and marshmallow prescriptions to those sorely in need of a sugar hit.

On my visit to the Kingly Court pop-up surgery shop, I felt l had walked into

Are you beach body ready?

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With the sun making an appearance these past few days I made the rash decision to sort through my beach holiday wardrobe to assess what needed updating. Lesson learned: Trying on bikinis is never a good experience, especially after six months of cloudy, grey skies. Finding cellulite, wobbly bits and bizarre reddish patches that I swear weren’t there last summer

Balancing Act

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For the past thirty years the idea that what you eat shows up on your face has widely been thought of as one of the biggest skin myths. While indulging in a bag of greasy crisps won’t turn up as oil on your face, recent skincare breakthroughs prove the havoc that certain foods can create on our complexions. Sugar? It’s

Olivia Grant parties in Dubai

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It’s not often that one receives an invite to a party in Dubai; even less often to nightclub impresario, Simon Hammerstein’s, new offering The Act opening on the 42nd floor of Dubai’s five-star Shangri-La Hotel. After all of one second deciding whether to go, I flung some suitably bejewelled cocktail dresses into a suitcase and headed to the Arabian Peninsula.

London’s best martinis!

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Can they please be part of our 5 a-day?

We know, we know. Alcohol is the last thing a beauty director should be recommending. But I’ve got an address for your little black book that I simply can’t resist sharing. Following on from a month of eating clean – check out James Duigan’s Clean and Lean cookbook for more info –

Blonde Ambition

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This summer, think blonde. “It’s big this season,” says über-colourist and Wella’s global creative director, Josh Wood. It may sound silly to declare summer’s ubiquitous hue a top trend, but blonde, rather, platinum blonde, was the shade on the spring-summer catwalks, as seen on models at Mary Katzantrou, Haider Ackermann and Marc Jacobs. Unless you’ve got a short crop or

The scrunchie is back!

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When Cara Delevingne starred in a campaign for new Dalston label My Crazy Scrunchie, we knew for sure that the ultimate 80s aerobics accessory was back. Taking us right back to the playground with old-school doodles, blogger Madeleine Mouton of Mad Like Life, shows us how to make our own…
 
For more information visit madlikelife.blogspot.co.uk
 

Beauty Address Alert!

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Planning a weekend jaunt to Paris? Don’t miss the grand new flagship store from MAC on the Champs-Elysées, which opened its doors just last week. If the brand’s failsafe Prep+Prime products, on-trend lippies and stay-put eyeliners (here on the InStyle beauty desk, we don’t go anywhere without our Eye Kohl in Smolder) aren’t enough to lure you into the massive

Be my Valentine…

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On the InStyle beauty desk, we love to celebrate any festive holiday. Christmas? Bring on the mince pies. Halloween? We start sorting our costumes one month in advance. But Valentine’s Day? I, for one, could do without the crammed restaurant and ubiquitous flowers and chocolates on rounds. It may sound a bit scrooge-like but I prefer to think outside the

Citizens of LA

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So, I recently popped over to Hollywoodland to keep a check on things out there. I stayed at the rather fabulous Sunset Tower Hotel. It’s an Art Deco dream. It’s also a hop, skip and jump from my favourite LA pancake pitstop, Mel’s diner: 
 
Whilst in town, I went to see the supreme kings of LA denim, Jerome Dahan and Adriano

Spring skin

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Yes okay, it may only be the 3rd January and we’re still clinging onto our opaque tights for dear life, but the InStyle beauty team got very excited by the lovely skincare diary which the kind people at Jergens sent over. It may be dark by 4pm and you may have no will-power to moisturise your limbs or get to

Merry Christmas from Olivia Grant!

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When the billionaire and movie mogul Howard Hughes refused to leave the penthouse of ‘The Desert Inn Hotel,’ and wore tissue boxes for shoes he was shunned as an eccentric…But let me tell you, after a stint in the fabulous Bottega Venetta suite at the St. Regis Florence, Hughes’ insistence on hotel living is starting to SERIOUSLY resonate with me!

Okay, I’m