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  • Julien Jabre – Vicious Circle

    I recently met someone who’s sent me a couple of mixes to inspire my own spinning and get me in the summer, stroke Ibizan mood. Amongst the three hour long sets I’ve received so far, feature a few of my firm favourites plus some current, awesome choices and the best part – a few new…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Film Soundtracks

    After an early morning movie discussion, it quickly became apparent that Sartoriology missed so many amazing films as a child.  So, after a flurry of email recommendations immediately sent her way, we decided to dedicate this week’s The Fashion Office Recommends to film soundtracks. To name only a mere few, imagine having missed out on…

  • Laurent Wolf – No Stress

    Tuesday – it’s the day of the week I definitely find the hardest.  It’s neither the beginning or the middle, let alone anywhere near the weekend.  It quite literally keeps me in limbo.  Thankfully, French DJ Laurent Wolf has encapsulated my feelings and shaken me out of my cyclical coma with his uplifting and rather…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…Cr*p Songs You Know You Love

    Due to popular demand, this Friday I’ve devoted The Fashion Office Recommends to what’s affectionately known as ‘Cheese’.  There’s some aromatic choices… As much as i may have no shame where it comes to music, this challenge was particularly difficult.  After battling with Carly Simon’s, You’re So Vain (too cool), i toyed with Madonna and I’m going Bananas or…

  • Music Makes The World Go Round…Week Four’s Big Five

    Ready for some new music?  It’s that time of the week (already, can you believe it?) to share last week’s top 5 loved tracks.   The sunshine may have made a sudden disappearance, been replaced with flash floods and as usual, London transport chaos, but at least these cool little sounds are here to grab back…

  • The Fashion Office Recommends…week three

    So, Friday has snuck up on us once again!  We’re now on week three of The Fashion Office Recommends – a selection of tracks sent my way from my fashionable desk sharers and created to expand all of our musical libraries.  Last week, the feature was fittingly dedicated to the sad passing of the King Of Pop,…

  • Music Makes The World Go Round – Week 3’s Top 5

    Here’s this week’s instalment of the week’s top 5 loved tracks, including some true classics and dance floor stormers.  What better a way to help you through the heatwave… 1. Stevie Wonder – Higher Ground 2. Drake – Concrete remixed  3. Michael Mind – Show Me Love (Club Mix).  One to take you back to the Balearic…

  • Breaking News: Eco Bag To Save Global Economy

    Look what arrived in the post today.  A re-usable bag with slightly more than an ecological message… A friend recently loaded a picture of this lovely little bag on Facebook.  Turns out it’s by none other than Brighton based cartoonists and bloggers Modern Toss.   When i saw the picture, as offensive as it may…

  • The Fashion Office recommends…a tribute to Michael Jackson

    He’ll be number one in the charts, Google’s most searched term, the biggest topic for bloggers, a sell-out in all music stores, on everyone’s iPod (including mine) and he’s already Last FM’s top listened to artist.   A man who needs no introduction, Michael Jackson will be sadly missed the world over. In light of his passing yesterday,…

  • Music makes the world go round – week 2

    Not to be confused with the recently launched ‘The Fashion Office Recommends’ feature (available each Friday), this is week two of soldiersailor’s top weekly tracks.  All fantastic five of them. Get to it  – do your ears a favour and banish the Tuesday blues with this week’s top 5: 1. De’Lacy – Hideaway 2. Ben Watt – Lone Cat (Justin…

  • It’s official: my dad is the coolest

    Check him out – this is one cool dude. He’s suave, he’s uber fashionable (or at least he was in the 70s) and best of all, he’s my Dad. Last week, i asked him what was the most rock and roll thing he had ever done, to which he replied; “some things parents don’t tell…

  • Music to write to. The fashion office recommends…

    Bloggers, fashionistas and anyone who gives a d**n about music, listen up – this is your definitive collection of recommended tracks from possibly the most fashionable office.  As a way of expanding our collections and bringing new sounds to all of our ears, each Friday i’ll be posting the recommended tracks from my fellow desk sharers.  So, without further…

  • Music makes the world go round…(and the week a lot quicker).

    To quote my much loved and sadly missed grandmother “Music is the international language”.  And, after a week filled with the discovery of some really quite amazing new songs (and a few fabulous classic ones), i decided to start a new feature reviewing my weeks top tunes.  This is in addition to the features ‘Trackback’…

  • Plaid Please! – The essential check shirt

    Checking out what was in the shops yesterday, i got caught up in a sea of lumberjack shirts.  Clashing Pink and yellow, classic red and blue, cheesecloth or roll up sleeves – which to choose?  Anyone would have thought it was festival season…  So before i filled up my ever bulging wardrobe,  i paused to…

  • Donald Byrd – Change Makes You Want To Hustle

    I got into work extra early this morning as things seem to be taking a hectic turn.  So I plugged myself into Last FM and decided to listen to some of my ‘friends’ highly recommended music.  I wasn’t dissapointed. At first, some odd but surprisingly soothing waterfall-like music began (similar to the stuff beauticians play…

  • Deviate – Manuel Tur & D Play

    Whilst researching turn-tables, I got side-tracked and came across Deviate by German DJ, Mauel Tur and D Play.  And it’s awesome.   Ok, so it doesn’t really do very much, but that’s exactly the reason i love it.  It’s the perfect (but minimal) deep house track that’s going to lend itself very well to my…

  • Sunday soundtrack #3: Perfect Blue Buildings, Counting Crows

    Normally, this kind of genre of music (soft rock?) would go straight in one ear and out the other, but Perfect Blue Buildings by Counting Crows couldn’t be a more beautiful track. It reminds me of the transitional period when i moved from Edinburgh to London, a whopping seven years ago.  A time when although I…

  • Top of the crops

    Drop and give me 20 – the crop top is back.   I’d read it in the magazines and seen it creeping into a few in shops.  The latest thing to be littering the high street is indeed the return of the 80s crop top. T-shirt, vest, 50s rockabilly tie-hem shirt, striped or ditsy; make…

  • Trackback #2 – Aim and Coldwater Music

    I was thinking it was probably about time I added to Trackback #1 just as ‘Coldwater Music’ by Aim popped up on my shuffle.  Enter Trackback #2.   It’s a track that reminds me of a couple of years ago.  Not quite as long ago as number one on the list, Unkle’s amazing ‘Lonely Soul’…

  • The underestimation of the humble T-shirt & mini

    Ransacking my wardrobe for something new and a combo never worn, I went retro on Friday and pulled out an old black mini skirt which I thought had seen better days. Little did i know when pairing it with my much loved (and probably a bit over worn) super-size wolf T-shirt, that a new uniform…

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