“Where do you think you’re going dressed like that, young lady?” Now this is not a sentence uttered by a tyrannical father or a medieval mother but the partner of a global...
The unworn closet: women and hoardingVintage collection reveals unworn delights...
Celebrity and humanity: how stars give backLast week I was lucky enough to be asked to be the key note speaker at a Fashion Event in London. Nothing new here really, charity and fashion have been walking hand in hand for some time and for a...
Meet Ms. Marvel, the first Muslim superheroNew female Muslim comic book character a breath of fresh air...
Extreme fitness, the Muslim wayWhen I was working at Vogue Russia I was asked to serve as a guinea pig for a beauty feature we were running about taking a highly unfit specimen (me) and turning her into a toned, sculpted, hard...
Home for the holidays: Arab in-flight styleI have a confession to make...I don’t travel well. I have been a jet baby all my life but I just don’t do air travel in style. When I was a child I watched a great film called The VIPs...
Brand Louboutin, a shoemaker’s tarnished soleWhen I hear the word Antwerp I think of diamonds and the Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis which brought an end to a 65 year war between France and Spain, in favor of Philip II in 1559. Yes, I know, an...
The secret to marital bliss? It’s in your DNAMy niece is getting married next week. The same teeny tiny baby I looked after as a teenager is going to be a bride. Sadly, due to work schedules, school term times and a host of other annoying...