Mini Skirts and The Mini Show
Content from Ayesha Charles at Charms of a Dandizette When Mary Quant named the ever rising skirt after her favourite car, the mini, no doubt she had foreseen the ambiguity of the term ‘mini’, in mini...
View ArticleThe Fashion Paradox:Fashion Cycle
Content from Ayesha Charles at Charms of a Dandizette Azzedine Alaia and Grace Jones A major part of going out for a night on the town is the dressing up and being appreciated for our adornment –...
View ArticleA Man’s Visual Instinct…?
Content from Ayesha Charles at Charms of a Dandizette Whether we are at work, on Oxford Street doing some much needed shopping with the girls, heading to Old Street for early evening drinks or Sunday...
View ArticlePerfume Adverts 2010 – The Pungent Smell of too much Perfume
Content from Ayesha Charles at Charms of a Dandizette How do you sell a smell? It is a shame for me to admit that in the times of financial hardship the first charm I will compromise is perfume. I came...
View ArticleThe Black Book
Content from Ayesha Charles at Charms of a Dandizette It is undeniable that the female fashion and lifestyle magazine reader of today is spoilt for choice. The abundance of women’s magazines gracing...
View ArticleFashion Illustration: A Brush With Fantasy
Content from Ayesha Charles at Charms of a Dandizette A Brush with Fantasy – with fashion illustrations by Hayden Williams It would seem that the fantastical world of fashion illustration is a world...
View ArticleInspired by: PRINT-CESS Mary Kantrantzou
Content from Ayesha Charles at Charms of a Dandizette If, like me, you’re not tickled pink by the sherbet candy colour pallet seen in the likes of Louis Vuiton’s spring summer 2012 collection, then...
View ArticleInspired by: Being Over Shopped or Under Paid!
Content from Ayesha Charles at Charms of a Dandizette Sometimes you really do just have to see the silver lining…or gold in my case! So here’s my story… This month I have been fluttering within the...
View ArticleInspired By: Stylish Thoughts…
Content from Ayesha Charles at Charms of a Dandizette I’ve been thinking about style a lot of lately, possibly because I have been shopping excessively and going out at just as much – requiring the...
View ArticleBe On Trend, Dress for the Season and Keep Warm…
Content from Ayesha Charles at Charms of a Dandizette …in this cold British Spring 2013… Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2013 The weather is said to be the most disengaging topic of conversations ever....
View ArticleThe Fashion Paradox: Pretentiousness & Expression
Content from Ayesha Charles at Charms of a Dandizette Fashion has the ability to break down or build up barriers, communicate social class, status and taste – if we discussed our social class or our...
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