accessories
We all love a bargain. There is nothing nicer than finding something you've been hankering after on sale. I'm the same, but increasingly I've become sceptical about the endless discounting the big retailers engage in. It doesn't feel fair when brands boost the price by 25% just to be able to offer a 20% markdown to unsuspecting customers. The two for one offers in supermarkets are fuelling waste and endangering the health of our children. We've become so conditioned to gravitate towards the sale item, we don't always appreciate the psychological manipulation involved.
It's already mid-way through January 2017 but it has been so busy in the Lily Blanche studio that I haven't had time until now to reflect on the year that has just been. One thing is certain, however. It has been our most amazing and busiest year to date.
All the attention has been on Kristen Stewart's new bleached blonde hair which she unveiled on the red carpet at Cannes but at Lily Blanche we were interested in the way she nailed the layered pendant look. Long and short pendants in mixed metals, worn together are a key look for summer and the queen of tom-boy chic pulled it off effortlessly.
Liberty of London has always been more than just a store to me - albeit a glamorous one. As an impoverished student in London, I found comfort and aspiration in its warm wood-panelling and distinctive facade which remained reassuringly unchanged over the decades while everything around it came and went.
