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TIMELESS STYLE SPOTLIGHT – BLAZERS

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Today I’m starting a new series where I dig a little deeper into the items in my closet that I believe are truly timeless and span all types of personal style. I’m starting with the category that I reach for every time I need a boost of confidence or a take-charge mindset, which is none other than…BLAZERS! There’s something to be said for a style that returns season after season, year after year, and decade after decade. While the fit and details may evolve the core premise of the blazer remains the same. It’s the kind of piece that adds...

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Sweet Entanglement Drew Greenfield

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  Sweet Entanglement Drew Greenfield (Fields of Wine, #2) Publication date: April 30th 2021 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Wine, chocolate and sex in academia … What happens when there are four in a relationship? With only occasional weekends and holidays together, Nicole Durand and Andy Ravel are feeling the strain of their long-distance romance. But when Andy is offered a job at MIT, Nicole faces an impossible decision. Should she go to America with the man she loves, or spend the next few years in celibate spinsterhood? Half-way through her degree course in Edinburgh, she has made friends and enjoys...

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How do you tell a high-quality wall-mounted ironing board from an average one? Do you look at the type and design, the material, bord size, durability, or just the price? Perhaps you’ve never thought of that before, but one thing you can be sure of...

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How do you tell a high-quality wall-mounted ironing board from an average one? Do you look at the type and design, the material, bord size, durability, or just the price? Perhaps you’ve never thought of that before, but one thing you can be sure of is that the best wall-mounted ironing board has a way of standing out from the rest. These are not your average ironing boards. They are made from strong materials and are sturdily built not only to ensure durability but also to keep them steady and ensure they support the weight of your clothes and your...

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Dutch designer Dave Hakkens has launched an online academy that teaches users how to fix "99 per cent of their clothing" in a bid to combat the mounting issue of textile waste.

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Called Fixing Fashion, the platform features instructions and video tutorials on how to repair, remake, resize and recolour damaged or unwanted clothing items. Alongside this, Hakkens has also created a fashion collection that illustrates these different techniques but will not be for sale. Among the techniques featured on the Fixing Fashion platform are various ways to combine two old items into one new garment "Many sustainable fashion efforts focus on the origin of garments and promote solutions to be purchased," said Hakkens. "But fashion doesn't need something new, we already have enough clothes in the world for the coming decade....

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“Everyone’s dreaming about travel,” says Anya Georgijevic, creative director of the newly launched resortwear line, Anushka

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Georgijevic is an avid globetrotter who calls Toronto home. And it’s there, pre-pandemic, where she started musing on an approach to a fashion label that spoke to wanderlust and liberation. Bodily, that is. Comparisons between fashion and interior design have been made throughout the decades; but for Georgijevic, the correlation takes on particular significance since prior to founding her brand, and her years spent as a style and design-focused writer and editor, she studied architecture at the University of British Columbia. Fast forward to years later when she was earning a Master’s of Fashion Studies degree at Ryerson University, where...

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