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Trend: March into Winter with Modern Military
If you cite Cara Delevigne and Pixie Geldof as your style icons then this one may be for you - the modern military look is marching into focus this Winter and with a much more grungy approach than previously seen last year. Oversized coats, chunky boots and lots of camouflage prints are set for abundance but what can we expect from the trend in jewellery terms? Well we are glad you asked as here at Anna Lou of London this is actually one of our favourite AW trends jewellery wise. Think hardwearing leather, khaki green colours and layered necklaces and...
Everyone's Wearing... Rose Gold Jewellery
As the Winter draws in, the jewellery trends tend to change for the colder months and we always find that as the weather gets colder the jewellery gets warmer. Rose gold jewellery in particular tends to be the easiest metal shade to rock come Winter. Perhaps it's because it compliments all skin tones, warms up even the coldest, palest of faces and brightens an outfit. Perhaps it's because wearing it gives a rosy glow that silver and gold don't achieve, or perhaps we all just need to look at the world through rose tinted glasses to get us through a...
Join our Masterclasses at Selfridges with Indytute...
During November we are taking part in a rather exciting little pop up at Selfridges with the lovely folks over at Indytute as they officially launch their brilliantly inspired lessons. Starting this week and taking you right through to the week before Christmas, these creative minds are taking over the fourth floor of Selfridges to bring you an array of workshops from tassle making to nail art, and allowing you to shop for the ultimate gifts - unique and inspiring lessons in everything from blues guitar to table tennis. With all sorts of creative craft on offer from paper engineering...
Trend - High Shine
It's no surprise that come the Winter party season we all turn into magpies seeking out the shiniest, sparkliest items around and getting ready to dazzle at the Christmas party. But this season we can expect more than a few sequins as in the fashion world things are set to become a lot shinier. As seen at Giles, Mary Katrantzou, Ashish and Simone Rocha, the AW13 catwalks were full of high shine fabrics and illuminating clothing. Simone Rocha showed metallic colours and PVC wet look fabrics, Mary Katrantzou a more subtle iridescent sheen to her iconic prints, Giles took shine...
Our Favourite Celebrity Halloween Costumes...
Halloween is around the corner once again, the one time of the year when you are encouraged to look as bad as you possibly can, scarily bad even. However the competition surrounding costumes is now fiercer than ever and a pair of cat ears will no longer cut it. Everyone, celebrities included, are keen to out do each other in coming up with the most creative of ghoulish get ups. In the spirit of one of our favourite Winter holidays we thought we would round up our favourite (and in our opinion the most creative) celebrity Halloween costumes of the...
Anna's Guide to Layering Necklaces...
Why wear one when you can wear three? The trend for layering necklaces is hotter than ever right now but getting the balance right can be tricky. Too few and it doesn't work, too many and your overloaded, too close together and you lose the effect, too far apart and there's no coherent theme. Here, founder and designer, Anna gives her top tips on the art of layering and suggests which type of necklaces are most appropriate for the trend... 1. Choose your Theme - the most important part is to first of all decide which type of layered look...