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Looking to enhance your gifting with slow crafted style this Christmas? Discover products steeped in passion and regional tradition, combining heritage skills with modern design and a slow, small batch approach to production. Explore our range of brands emphasizing sustainability and quality, from seaweed skincare, and playful heritage knitwear to native botanical candles. Uncover these unique gift ideas below and...

With the change of season and a back to work feel, a new uniform is emerging across the collections.  With a need for longevity, reliability and easy to style items in your wardrobe, these new 'basics' work with what you already own, but bring a fresh slant to the season. Core styles are being elevated with luxury fabrication, a clean,...

  If you are seeking some easy styling advice for your jewellery collections this summer season here’s a look at four themes we have spotted coming through strong. From pieces with a colourful edge to the classic beachy offerings you'd expect for days spent on the sand. These are pieces that sum up summer: fun, relaxed and just here for...

The summer season means the start of outdoor events and get-togethers, and finding the ideal dress style for these type of occasions (whilst factoring in the unpredictable UK weather) can be challenging.  Whether you need something for roof top drinks, a tropical beach wedding, picnics in the park or a formal garden party, these styles will take you through casual...

Almost becoming a classic for the warmer months, fruit motifs continue to crop up on a regular basis within the collections. From cherry symbols, to fruit and veg based colour palettes, fruit inspired designs are adding a fun and fresh twist to summer wardrobes.  Fruit motifs have been a popular choice in fashion for a while, but they have seen...

  Inspired by the expansive skies and wild shoreline of the coast, brands have been inspired by Summer days at the ocean. Immersed in the natural landscape, mood-boards were filled with images of sun-kissed skin, splashing in the shallows, roaming the dunes and collecting samphire for relaxing lunches in the shade with family and friends. When it comes to art...

  Carrying on from International Women's Day, we continue to celebrate Womens History Month with another Women in Business focus, which celebrates the achievements of inspiring women in women-led businesses. Below we chat to Freya one of the Creators and Directors of Plum & Ashby about her experiences and advice for other women looking to start their own businesses, as...

With the launch of the Winter Sale, now is the perfect time to review your wardrobe and see where you need to invest. The following styles are ones that we consider reliable building blocks and are perfect for having in your wardrobe. An edit of season appropriate pieces you can rely on is the best way to make things so...

  Facing the task of choosing a meaningful, low impact gift within a budget can be overwhelming. However, with a store packed to the rafters with innovative, independent brands and a strong focus on the crafted and sustainable, we hope this selection below may spark inspiration for those on your list.   Best For: Design Enthusiasts Who Prefer Clean Beauty...

  With a strong sense of identity, a legacy of heritage crafts such as dying, spinning and weaving, combined with leading talent in modern design we take a look at our stores selection of independent fashion and apothecary brands based in Scotland and Ireland. Founded in 1986, Eribe is a knitwear design house and manufacturing company  based in Melrose, in...

  New season collections are beginning to arrive and Danish brand Stella Nova welcomes us to the world of the Tailors Wardrobe in which we get to dress up and embrace the sculptural details, be seduced by the bold splash of color-blocking and get ready for contrasting styling. Black and white are used for a sharp look, but also paired...

  Dzidzia Wilk was born in 1988 in a small town called Mettmann, near Dusseldorf in Germany. Dzidzia’s Polish roots explain her name; Dzidzia means baby in Polish. Now living and working in the East London art scene, Dzidzia finds herself  between the cultural influences of Germany and London. Following study at art school, Dzidzia went on to study Art...

    Rita Row was born in Figueres (Girona) in June 2013 and is the brainchild of two halves: Imma Serra and Xènia Semis. From its beginnings, the brand established a clear objective: to craft elegant and functional clothing. Rita symbolizes a woman in search of comfort, quality and style; this fictional character acts as a muse to the designers,...

  Now that the signs of Spring are starting to appear, it feels right to consider a swap to a seasonal scent for yourself. Fragrances with floral scents, such as rose, mimosa or lilac are often considered simple classics, but the ones below come with a range of notes and a fresh twist. Read on to discover some of the florals...

  Since it's beginnings in 2012, Louise Mischa has been a story of adventure, friendship and family. Intricacy in detail, fabrication and crafts are signature to this French brand that use travel and comfort as their main inspiration. These are clothes you wear continually but never want to wear out as you'll be lost without them. Through each collection, Louise...

  Bon Parfumeur is a niche perfume house that offers clean, genderless and eco-responsible fragrances. Created and made with local suppliers in France (the design begins in Paris, the juice is from Grasse, the bottle from Normandie, and production is in Chartres)  local manufacturing allows the brand to minimise transportation costs while fully valuing French fragrance know-how. Even though the...

  Lab Tonica is a contemporary wellness brand which aims to take herbal remedies out of the cupboard and onto the cosmetic shelf. Encompassing a perfect alchemy of design, ancient recipes, scientific methods and accessible formats, Lab Tonica brings the healing power of plants to a new, modern audience. Every sip of the brands tea, smudge of balm, drop of...

  After the excess of the Christmas season, it always seems relevant to return to a back to basics approach, wanting to refresh what we currently have in our wardrobes and questioning the longevity of future purchases. With this in mind (and one eye on warmer days) we have a quick round up of three styles from one of our...

  From a new generation taking the design lead in a Scandinavian jewellery brand, a sustainable candle company celebrating Irish design with twenty years of small batch production, to a family business drawing on their Basque heritage to produce hardwearing rainwear, these are just three of the new brands that have been selected for the Autumn Winter season here at...

  Not just for the party season, metallic was seen juxtaposed with daywear across many of the autumn/winter collections. Whilst silver and gold always dominant in the winter months, fresh eye-catching deep greens and ocean blues also made an appearance. The trend carries over from the usual party dresses into tops, pants and outerwear, so can be easily dressed down...