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Mother’s Day Gift Guide

March 26, 2014 By in Fashion, Style Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

Mother’s Day is on Sunday (March 30) which is just around the corner. Do you have that pressie ready for Mum? Here are some gift ideas for our very special mothers. There is something for every budget.

1. Khaki Hooded Lightweight Parka: It costs just £31.50 and it is currently on sale at Dorothy Perkins.

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2. J Crew Gold-tone Crystal Earrings: Grab this at Net A Porter for £40.

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3. Pink Palm Print Maxi Dress: This currently costs £17.99 at New Look.

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4. Spa Treatment at The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel & Spa: Prices vary so contact doubletree3.hilton.com.

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5. Kurt Geiger Lourdes Pumps: Grab this at Kurt Geiger stores or Selfridges for £150.

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6. Marc Jacobs Dot Eau de Parfum Gift set: Get this at Selfridges for £53.

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7. Phase Eight Philly Spot Top: This top is currently on sale for £35 at House of Fraser.

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8. Black Quilted Duffle Bag by Julien Macdonald: This bag is currently on sale at Debenhams for £27.30.

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9. Rose Bubbles and Pink Marc de ChampagneTruffles by Marks and Spencer: This costs £25.

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10. The Ultimate Natural Beauty Bible by Sarah Stacey and Josephine Fairley: This book is available at Amazon for just £16.99.

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A lot of sale items on this gift guide so hurry while sale lasts. Happy Shopping.

Fashion Diva Of The Week (Lilian)

February 24, 2014 By in Fashion Divas Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Our fashion diva of the week is the gorgeous Lilian from London. She has previously been featured as a fashion diva in 2012 on here

Have a look at her pictures below to see how her style has grown.

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She is wearing a dress by Asos, shirt by Hawes and Curtis, shoes by Guess, bag by Zara, sunnies by Ralph Lauren and watch by Michael Kors. She looks fab.

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Lilian is wearing a black Hawes and Curtis shirt, blue jeans by Guess, shoes by Converse, bag by Michael Kors, earrings from Primark and watch by Marc Jacobs. I love this look.

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For this look, our diva is wearing a white ruffle shirt by Hawes and Curtis, trouser and jacket by Zara, earrings from Primark, sunnies by Ralph Lauren, fasinator from Tie Rack, watch by Armani, shoes and clutch by Karen Millen.

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Lilian is wearing a black dress by Zara, boots from Matalan, sunnies by Ralph Lauren, watch by Marc Jacobs and handbag by Zara. She looks amazing.

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For this look, Lilian is wearing a shirt by Hawes and Curtis, cargo pants by Massimo Dutti, jacket from TK Maxx, trainers by Aldo, sunnies by Ralph Lauren, watch by Marc Jacob and bag by Zara.

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For her final look, Lilian is wearing white Asos dress, navy blue Zara Jacket, shoes by Kurt Geiger, purse by Nine West,and watch by Michael Kors. This is definitely my favourite look. What do you think?

If you want to feature as a fashion diva of the week, please send full length pictures of yourself, your name, your location and a brief description of what you have on to fashionandstylepolice@gmail.com

Have a lovely week peoples.

Top 50 Fashion & Style Quotes

January 25, 2014 By in Fashion Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment
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Coco Chanel
1. ‘Walk like you have three men walking behind you.’ – Oscar de la Renta
2. ‘Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.’ – Marilyn Monroe
3. ‘In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.’ – Coco Chanel

4. ‘Fashions fade, style is eternal.’ – Yves Saint Laurent

5. ‘One is never over-dressed or under-dressed with a Little Black Dress.’ – Karl Lagerfeld

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Marilyn Monroe
6. ‘Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.’ – Bo Derek
7. Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.’ – Audrey Hepburn8. So soon as a fashion is Universal, it is out of date.’ – Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

9. ‘I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.’ – Whitney Houston

10. ‘Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.’ – Coco Chanel

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Audrey Hepburn
11. ‘Fashion is so close in revealing a person’s inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It’s really too close to the quick of the soul.’ – Stella Blum
12. ‘I like my money right where I can see it: hanging in my closet.’ – Carrie Bradshaw
13. ‘The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.’ Giambattista Valli

14. ‘If you can’t be better than your competition, just dress better.’ Anna Wintour

15. ‘The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don’t wear her.’ – Mary Quant

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Anna Wintour
16. ‘Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked at all times.’ – Betsey Johnson
17. ‘Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.’ – Lauren Hutton
18. ‘Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.’ – Virginia Woolf

19. ‘The difference between style and fashion is quality.’ – Giorgio Armani

20. ‘You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.’ – Christian Dior

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Yves Saint Laurent
21. ‘Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.’ – Gianni Versace
22. A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.’ – Coco Chanel
23. ‘I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.’ – Lady Gaga

24. ‘I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane’ – Karl Lagerfeld

25. ‘Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.’ – Alexander Wang

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Karl Lagerfeld
26. ‘When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.’ – Miuccia Prada
27. ‘Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.’ – Rachel Zoe
28. ‘Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.’ – Alexander McQueen

29. ‘About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.’ – Manolo Blahnik

30. ‘The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.’ – Audrey Hepburn

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Gianni Versace
31. ‘You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur.’ – Karl Lagerfeld
32. ‘The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.’ – Diana Vreeland
33. ‘Style is when they’re running you out-of-town and you make it look like you’re leading the parade.’ – William Battie

34. ‘I don’t design clothes. I design dreams.’ – Ralph Lauren

35. ‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.’ – Oscar Wilde

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Mary Quant
36. ‘To me, clothing is a form of self-expression – there are hints about who you are in what you wear.’ – Marc Jacobs
37. ‘Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.’ – Orson Welles
38. ‘I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.’ – Coco Chanel

39. ‘Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.’ – Yves Saint Laurent

40. ‘A woman’s dress should be a like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.’ – Sophia Loren

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Marc Jacobs
41. ‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
42. ‘I can’t concentrate in flats.’ – Victoria Beckham
43. ‘Men tell me that I’ve saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it’s cheaper than a divorce’ – Manolo Blahnik.

44. ‘If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion’ – Michelle Obama

45. ‘Clothes aren’t going to change the world, the women who wear them will’ – Anne Klein

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Michelle Obama
46. ‘When in doubt, wear red.’ Bill Blass
47. ‘Fashion is instant language.’ Miuccia Prada
48. ‘Beauty is power, a smile is its sword.’ Charles Reade

49. ‘Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!’ – Donna Karan

50. ‘Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.’ – Edna Woolman Chase

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Victoria Beckham

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