5 Ways To Ace Your Bride’s Speech
It’s been a solid while since I’ve been to a wedding but coincidentally one is coming up in my calendar, and I am suddenly exceedingly excited. Is it because of not-so-long-ago pandemic measures that put a temporary stop to this classic, year-round merriment, and reopening the wedding venues, ready to be filled with reunited friends and joyful family members, brings back that tingling house-party sensation or even those going-clubbing vibes of my younger years?
LINES – New Alternative Cabaret Show
Edgy and underground, LINES is all about modernising and reinventing a classic cabaret.
Launched this February at Hackney Wick’s Studio 9294, situated next to a scenic view of the River Lea canal.
Blue Zone Lifestyle a Key to Wellbeing
It is no secret that the path to an optimal state of mind, body, and spirit, is a healthy lifestyle. It opens the door to a more fulfilling life.
The key for this door might just be adopting a Blue Zone Lifestyle. But what is it?
Rooftop Sunsets & Movies This London Summer
Hiding indoors in the summer is a sin. Summer is for soaking up the sun rays, sipping cocktails and shouting from the rooftops: ‘Bring me fun, London!’
In fact, you can do all this and watch a movie too. Rooftop Film Club is here to upgrade your summer with the ultimate open-air film experience.
UK Scores Highly As Sustainable Fashion Hub
When it comes to embracing sustainable fashion, the UK averages a search for ‘sustainable fashion’ every 8 minutes, beating other Europe’s fashion hot spots and grabbing a second spot, right after Germany.
5 Minutes with New Media Artist Dianne Harris
Coinciding with the City of London’s Women: Work and Power season, Mayfair’s Sketch interiors were filled with a series of neo-postmodernism works by acclaimed female artists for an exhibition unsurprisingly called ‘Women Empowered’.
Five Minutes With A Wedding Photographer
You have your beloved by your side and your dream wedding dress on, you are clutching a bouquet of your favourite flowers and are surrounded by your favourite people to watch you say the words ‘I do’. There is one more very important thing to add: A professional wedding photographer to capture one of the happiest moments of your life.
Go Pink This Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is the messenger of cold weather to come but there is a way to feel the warmth by treating yourself and do plenty of good at the same time.
This year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the UK’s first comprehensive breast cancer charity, Breast Cancer Care and Breast Cancer Now, the latter being the UK’s largest breast cancer research charity, have partnered up with amazing retail brands to create unique, limited edition and of course, pink products to splurge on but without a guilt factor. Each purchase will contribute to a life-changing support and life-saving research.
Five Minutes With… A Fashion & Beauty Illustrator
London Fashion Week kicks off this week, indulging us in a preview of the next season trends. So while we’re celebrating all things London fashion, Belle’s own Zuzana Ritchie caught up with fashion and beauty illustrator Sarah Smart and took a virtual sneak peek at what it takes to become a successful professional illustrator...
London Fashion Week – Best of Fashion Scout
The Autumn Winter 2017 Fashion Week marathon is not over yet, but before we bring you the AW17 Big Beauty Trends Round-Up of all the runway shows from New York, London, Milan and Paris, let’s recap the best bits from the catwalk at LFW Fashion Scout, within the amazing art deco interiors of London’s Freemasons’ Hall...
Duvet Dining With Gizzy Erskine And TK Maxx
If you haven’t been living off the grid, you are familiar with people’s favourite shopping temple for big labels and small prices. The latest TK Maxx campaign of Ridiculous Possibilities opens up the door to a whole new adventure, inspiring not only your sense of sight and touch but smell and taste too...
Grand Hotel in Eastbourne: Seafront Luxury With A Heart
‘Autumn is like the grand finale scene of a summer love story’. This I mused in the car, while drinking in the explosion of golden, amber and scarlet hues along the East Sussex coastline, quite smug that our wedding anniversary falls on just such a day...
Debate: Why Do Diets Fail?
It is a question that most women putting themselves through one of many diet plans on the market wouldn’t want to hear. However, this daringly-conclusive and thought-provoking question was the topic point of an exclusive morning debate taking place in the elegant Library Room at London’s Rosewood hotel last week...
Seductive Female Spirit At Brixton’s Courtesan
As soon as London nights turn frosty, it takes a special kind of talented charmer to lure me out from under my electric blanket and put my party boots on.However, the recently relaunched Courtesan, discreetly tucked away from Brixton’s main road hubbub, managed to charm the curious side of me. Boasting ‘the world’s first truly female wine and spirit list’ from the cocktail bar it also includes a dim sum restaurant, a tea room and a subterranean late-night entertainment space. It certainly has multiple layers of intrigue...
Fashion And Philanthropy Collide
Fashion and philanthropy are no longer terms so alien to each other. Thousands of fashion brands are associated with numerous worthy causes and various charities across the globe...
Maison Makarem Debuts SS17 Collection
I welcome any opportunity to stroll through the luxurious interiors of Ritz London hotel and inhale the fine air of its history and prestige. So I was, naturally, delighted when an invitation to a private viewing of SS17 collection of the new luxury British womenswear label Maison Makarem dropped through my letterbox...
Premier Bubbly At Icetank
The fever of the Spring Summer 2017 Fashion Week marathon may have slowly fizzled out in the four biggest trend-setting capitals but that’s no reason to put a cork back into the bottle just yet. In fact, I am convinced the celebratory cork popping is still echoing through Paris where the fashion elite gathered last, to swoon over what we’ll be wearing the next season. So with FOMO in mind, I headed to Icetank in Covent Garden for a premier sparkling evening of my own.
Turn Up The Heat This BBQ Season
Firing up the BBQ is one of the best life hacks when you need to feed an eclectic crowd of guests with equally eclectic dietary preferences. Unless your home comes with a butler or you’ve recently acquired a Michelin star, you risk mingling with the cooking pots instead of your guests.
Get Into The Spirit Of Tasting
You think you know all about the spirit of your choice at your local hang-out venue until Spirits Educator and Master Distiller Will Lowe makes you aware you’ve been merely scratching a surface of a bottle...