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  • 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…

  • We’ve been talking…you better get blogging

    I haven’t met a blogger yet that’s not guilty of finding an excuse to prevent them from keeping their blog up to date; myself included.  So when I gasped in horror today as a colleague told me they hadn’t written a post in almost five months, I also drew a silent sigh of relief thinking…

  • The BIG Blazer Boom

    If there’s one thing you simply must buy this season – it’s a longline 80s blazer with roll back sleeves.  Wear it with dresses, leggings, trousers and fade wash jeans and buy one size up.  Just don’t dare even think of leaving home without it. Oversized blazers have been seen on every runway from Stella…

  • What’s your guilty secret?

    Whilst i’m not one to be shy so to speak, there’s a certain prerequisite in society that prevents people from being their true self a lot of the time. At work, in the presence of someone new, at an interview – probably more than you realise. But everyone has a guilty secret right? On my way…

  • First look: Matthew Williamson at H & M

    A while ago, I wrote a post about the upcoming Matthew Williamson collection launching at H & M this month.  Best sharpen your elbows and get ready for those long queues, there’s only ten days until launch.   Expect to be greeted by a high summer palette of knock-out cerise, acid lemon, cool cobalt blue and a…

  • Global Guide 09 – Azuli strikes again

    In preparation for Ibiza ’09 (and for a bit of an iPod refresh) I wanted to hear some new house tracks.  Ultimately, and after listening to a few snippets on YouTube, I ended up downloading Azuli’s ’09 Global Guide. Each year (and probably a lot more regularly), the record label Azuli is one of the…

  • Funkerman – Speed Up

    Amongst discovering many new, amazing dance tracks whilst sitting on the awesome Sairee Beach in Thailand, I was reminded of a few old ones.  In particular, Funkerman’s Speed Up blasted out as two fire throwers twisted and spun their flames.   It’s an old one, but a very good one and has been promptly added…

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