Wisdom does not come with age. The ability to reason, reflect, evaluate situations from various angles and weigh-up the pros and cons before acting – is learned through experience. A fundamental paradox of human psychology is that analysis and introspection can be just as hazardous as impulsivity. Think Eight Mile. Rabbit (aka Marshall Mathers) steps [...]
Iris van Herpen is no household name but as any self-respecting fashionista will attest, the 27 year old has reinvigorated runways the world over with her visionary, multimedia collections. In 2011 van Herpen won the Dutch Fashion Awards, the RADO Young Designer Awards and TIME Magazine named her 3D printed dresses one of the 50 [...]
The turn of the twentieth century, a golden age of art, innovation, social change and simmering feminine power. Women stashed suffrage propaganda in their knickers and burning passions for unsuitable beaus and belles in their flaming hearts. Swoon. Or, so go my fanciful imaginings, as I gaze wistfully at my wardrobe of jeans and chunky [...]
We adore cool hats here at indigo sherbet and this classy offering by Label Lab is just so yummy we had to share to with you. Beige maxi dress £55, Khaki hat £30 both Label Lab and available from House of Fraser Check with supplier for up-to-date prices and availablity. Photos: courtesy of PR Shots [...]
Behold, Fiverr.com; the future-forward market-place for the office averse, ingenious, unemployed, talented, freelancing, 9-to-5-rejecting workforce of an increasingly outsourced world. How does it work? In a digital nutshell, Fiverr is a ‘platform’, an ‘online community’. Technically, it’s more of a ‘community-supporting’ infrastructure, catalyzing the organic congregation of like-minds and reciprocal needs (wow, I’ve clearly read [...]
Reports, surveys, statistics, hard facts all concur; the hand that rocks the cradle is cooking up a storm at the heart of commerce. According to eMarketer, many of the major brands consider Mommy Bloggers as “important marketing partners and powerful allies”. And for good reason. Currently, the number of Mommy Bloggers in the US hovers [...]
Wisdom does not come with age. The ability to reason, reflect, evaluate situations from various angles and weigh-up the pros and cons before acting – is learned through experience. A fundamental paradox of human psycholog...
Iris van Herpen is no household name but as any self-respecting fashionista will attest, the 27 year old has reinvigorated runways the world over with her visionary, multimedia collections. In 2011 van Herpen won the Dutch Fash...
The turn of the twentieth century, a golden age of art, innovation, social change and simmering feminine power. Women stashed suffrage propaganda in their knickers and burning passions for unsuitable beaus and belles in their f...
If tumor-targeting nanoparticles and bilingual, emotion-sensing robots haven’t already let the cat out of the bag, know this: Star Trek tech is here. The latest ‘next big thing’ currently causing ripples across the we...
Behold, Fiverr.com; the future-forward market-place for the office averse, ingenious, unemployed, talented, freelancing, 9-to-5-rejecting workforce of an increasingly outsourced world. How does it work? In a digital nutshell, F...
Reports, surveys, statistics, hard facts all concur; the hand that rocks the cradle is cooking up a storm at the heart of commerce. According to eMarketer, many of the major brands consider Mommy Bloggers as “important market...
Last year a wave of naked images began flooding the web. Supporters from across the globe shed their clothes in protest against the treatment of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Ai was under investigation for the making a...
According to a report by the Future Laboratory, the past couple of years have seen the number of women-run start-ups rocket. There are over one million self-employed women in the UK. If trendspotter Jeremy Baker, of ECSP Europe...
Fifty years ago, the world of work was a very different place. Bourbon breaks, three-martini lunches, all-smoking offices, defacto sexism and, unexpectedly, the reign of the female computer programmer. Surprised? A manpower sho...
Although memorable for Meg Ryan’s infamous faked café climax, the 1989 romcom ‘When Harry met Sally’ delves into something much deeper; the mysterious undercurrents of the male:female friendship. For example, Har...