We all want to look perfect on our wedding day: glowing skin, flawless tan, silky locks, rosy lips and a gentle blush on our cheek. All naturally of course!

Here are some of our editorial team’s favourite beauty products for brides. (All from Boots, so you can collect points too!)
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There are few wedding dress styles more modern than the mini!  Ideal for high fashion, low key weddings, hot and tropical beach weddings or flirty, informal affairs at the registry office the mini wedding dress can also be worn time and time again at all kinds of parties and occassions.  Another bonus is that they often come with mini price tags!  Here are three great mini wedding dresses from Oli.co.uk

Now don’t get me wrong, I am a strong advocate of “each to their own” in just about every way, but when if you are trying to express a strong, aggressive, dark soul through fashion with an outfit that looks like what the Hulk would wear if he wanted to go to a Hallowe’en party as The Crow…

…don’t do it in pointy toed, high heeled boots, hon!

Mens fashions at London Fashion Week 2010 were certainly a mix bag!  While some designers showcased futuristic visions of radically new styles, others such opted to rework retro looks from eras gone by.

The old movie lover in me particularly enjoyed the 1940’s crisp, masculine lines and dashing trilbies of Hardy Amies’ Autumn Winter 2010 collection.

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We are excited to be able to offer our readers a chance to win a digital photo enlargement courtesy of OnlinePosterPrinting.com

One lucky winner will get to upload their favourite image to be transformed into a 18×24 Poster Print on high gloss or semi gloss paper absolutely free!

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Appearing at London Fashion Week for the first time,  Hakaan is an acclaimed designer with a great eye for shapes and structure.

Next up on the catwalk at London Fashion Week yesterday was Caroline Charles.  A native London designer, Charles Autumn Winter 2010 collection featured retro 1940’s lines and embroidered patterns in modern shapes and styles.  Highly wearable, her collection was full of great formal dresses.

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We start a thrilling season of fashion shows, award ceremonies and wedding fairs this week, kicking off with London Fashion Week.  Opening the show for the fifth time, was Paul Costelloe.  While his Spring Summer 2010 collection had been light and full of whites, his Autumn Winter 2010 collection was a polar opposite, with little colour in the pallette of black and chocolate browns.  Only a little gold embroidery added some flash to the dark designs.   The designs are highly tailored, with simple, strict lines that are flattering for all ages and ideal for Mother of the Bride.  Shop from his collections online at John Lewis.

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Eli Saab is synonymous with texture.  He can play with embellishments in a way that no other designer can, while retaining an elegant overall silhouette and feminine feel to his gowns.   As one of his models from his runway show at Paris Fashion week said, his dresses make a woman feel “chic, strong and beautiful”.

Elie Saab’s ready to wear designs for his Spring Summer 2010 collection hinted at the structure of the 1940’s, softened by layered draping.  There were hints of geometric shapes here and there, but they never compromised the timeless feel that Saab’s gowns posess.   Fabrics such as georgette were used widely, which created flowing lines, while jersey gave some gowns a more sumptous finish. Continue Reading…

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We think that Gareth Pugh needs a bit of a holiday. If his latest collection, shown at Paris Fashion Week in January was anything to go by, his mood is definitely depressed.  His designs rarely strayed from a muddy pallette of greys and browns, and looked as though they were inspired by a vision of futuristic street urchins. And while we know that feathers were all the rage last year for couture wedding gowns, this terrible headpiece was one of our biggest “hates” of the season so far.