Micro trend alert – first snoods, now elbow length gloves. This seasons love affair with the eighties keeps going strong.

Luella Bartley’s Luella label ceased trading this week after it’s backer, Club 21, announced that it had reluctantly “taken the decision not to invest further in its relationship with Luella Bartley Limited”. I can’t imagine why someone would want to drop the Luella label?

Arguably one of the most glamorous women to ever grace the big screen, Audrey Hepburn is one of Hollywood’s greatest style icons. Her life in film and fashion has now been brought together in the release of ‘Audrey Hepburn: International Cover Girl’ by Scott Brizel. We’ve three of these fantastic books to giveaway! …

2009 is undeniably the year of the shoulder, pioneered by hot designer Balmain and brought to the mainstream by the likes of Beyonce and Rihanna. However, if sharp, wide shoulder pads scare the hell out of you but you still want to toughen your image up for Winter 09…

With Christmas stealthly creeping up on us it’s time to start considering what we’ll be giving our loved ones and for those who give to receive – yours truly included – what we’ll be getting in return…

The snood is back. I remember, back in the late eighties, playing dress up with my Mum’s snood thinking how awesome I looked. Then again I thought I looked beautiful with a backcombed side pony tail so…

Shirley Manson and Elijah Wood are the slightly odd pairing of Oliver People’s 2010 Eyewear campaign. Not necessarily the conventional way to go but convention is boring. The resulting photos show that this pair totally work together…

According to Jess Cartner Morley, Fashion Columnist for the Guardian, “the knee high boot is dead in the water”. A strong statement for something that is a winter staple for most women but while I don’t necessarily believe that we’ve seen the last of the knee high boot, I too have seen enough of the tired “skinny jeans tucked into kneed high boots” look – it has been done to death.

Draped grecian dresses are here to stay, a fashion staple if you will, for the savvy fashionista. This particular Grecian delight will look hot against both bare legs and black opaques…

The love affair with the decade that gave us Madonna, MTV and Ra Ra skirts is still going strong. Take a look at this Timex80 digital watch in gold stainless steel (£60.00). Isn’t it awesome? …