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January 18, 2022 at 06:02AM My grandma is a practical woman—growing up on a rural farm in Canada will do that to you. She’s also incredibly knowledgeable, as all grandmas tend to be. This potent combination means that you will do well to listen when she gives advice. I’ve made many of my most significant life decisions based on her sage advice alone. (I regret none.) And one of the lessons she’s taught me and continues to stand by is that fine jewellery is a wise investment.Flashy is not a word I’d use to describe her, but a peek inside her jewellery box would tell you otherwise. A small edit it may be, but every piece inside it is of the highest quality, with some illustrious names thrown in. One name that’ll get you places in the world of fine jewellery is Cartier.Founded in Paris in…

January 18, 2022 at 06:00AM There’s always a lot of chat around winter coats during the months of November and December, but if experience has shown us anything, it’s that the mercury really starts to plummet in January and February. The last month has seen a thick frost cover the ground every morning, and it shows so sign of disappearing over the next few weeks. So naturally, now is the time to be fishing out your winning winter warmers. The puffer is always a safe bet for insulating powers. However, its casual appeal is not always to everyone’s taste. Enter the shearling jacket. Whether it’s retro-inspired aviators or more contemporary, clean-lined silhouettes, the shearling jacket has not only proved itself to be an icon in the outwear stakes, but it also happens to be experiencing a spike in popularity this season. Totême’s leather-trimmed shearling particularly caught the imagination of the fashion crowd and has been spotted on countless Insta trend…

January 18, 2022 at 06:00AM Being an international supermodel at 20 has a lot of perks, one being that luxury design houses create handbags especially for you. Kaia Gerber is often seen with a Celine handbag, and so in 2020 the creative director Hedi Slimane designed a shoulder bag especially for her.Kaia always stays loyal to her minimal aesthetic, wearing straight-leg jeans and leather coats you would expect the cast of Friends to have worn or her mother, Cindy Crawford, back in the ‘90s. The handbag, Ava, unsurprisingly looks like it’s straight from this decade, thanks to its crescent-shaped silhouette that tucks neatly under the shoulder. The bag was initially made just for Kaia, but then was a year later included in the Sprig Summer 2021 collection and now remains a core design for the house.Given this is a bag designed specifically to Kaia’s…

January 18, 2022 at 05:32AM Personal style can be mastered at any age—there is no magic number or milestone birthday that can claim to be the pivotal point. Some lucky fashion lovers manage to find their signature look early on and hold onto it throughout their lives, adjusting and updating it ever so slightly to suit the changing times and trends. For others, understanding the outfits and clothes you feel most comfortable in can be a more arduous and experimental process.Whichever camp you reside in, there’s no denying that as you get older, your tastes and wardrobe needs change. For example, aged 33, I now realise that all of the cheaper, trend-ticking items I bought on the high street in my 20s haven’t stood up, so I’m endeavouring to buy less and buy better. My mum, who is in her 70s, is still…

January 18, 2022 at 05:27AM Although it was launched way back in 1930, Elizabeth Arden’s Eight Hour Cream remains a must-have beauty product amongst makeup artists, celebrities and stylish people alike. The packaging might have changed over the years, with limited-edition releases continuing to go down a storm with Arden devotees, but there’s no doubt that this apricot-coloured balm remains continually popular. In fact, a tube is sold every 30 seconds worldwide. So after more than 90 years in existence, what exactly has enabled this unassuming product to stand the test of time? Created by Elizabeth Arden herself, the balm is a blend of vitamin E and petrolatum that was specially created to soothe the skin of clients at her Red Door salon in New York. In line with Arden’s ethos on all things beauty, it was specially formulated to actually do good to the skin—healing…

January 18, 2022 at 05:18AM I know from my own experience that planning a wedding can take months. You spend endless hours deciding what your guests are going to eat, what booze they’re going to drink and even which napkins they’ll wipe their mouths on. While this is all important stuff, it doesn’t really compare to deciding on which outfit you’re going to wear.Of course, the last couple of years had different plans for those who had their weddings coming up, and plenty of nuptials had to be cancelled as a result of the pandemic. But there’s one silver lining I hope I can provide for you. If you’re planning on getting married at some point, then you have more time to decide what you’re going to wear. And if budgets are smaller than you had previously hoped for, then I have good news: High-street wedding dresses look as good as designer ones.With a…

January 18, 2022 at 05:00AM If you weren’t already an avid H&M shopper before 2021, chances are high that you probably are by now. Despite an increasingly difficult market to succeed in, the high-street mega-brand has only gone from strength to strength, continually wooing us all with affordable basics, statement sellouts, conscious collections and, of course, all those collaborations. The design team seems to have a knack for nailing exactly what we want to be wearing, and so, unsurprisingly, the brand is consistently one of the most popular on Who What Wear UK. Of course, some items are more in-demand than others, and given we’re always nosy about what other people are buying, we thought you might also like a sneak peek into what H&M’s actual best sellers were in 2021. As it turns out, you’re all as mad about expensive-looking basics as we are. Most of the list consists of perfect capsule wardrobe items…

January 16, 2022 at 06:00AM If you’ve ever wanted to know what’s really inside the makeup bags of the most stylish women in the industry, you’re in luck. We’ve created a new column—Inside My Makeup Bag—to uncover the beauty products our fashion friends genuinely keep in their daily rotations and how much their stashes actually cost. I’ll be delving inside their bags on your behalf and totting up every item in there, from the most expensive to the cheapest. Not only will you be left with an incredible shopping list, but you’ll get a realistic price tag to boot.Melissa Holdbrook-Akposoe is the mastermind behind Melissa’s Wardrobe, sharing the latest snippets of her life as a celebrity fashion stylist, beauty expert and interior designer. As well as the recent launch of her lifestyle website itsalifestylehun which focuses on topics such as fashion, beauty, lifestyle, finance, food, travel and dating…