News about Amanda Wakeley

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: As Lady Starmer (right) rethinks how she pays for her frocks, she might learn a lesson from Labour's last first lady Sarah Brown (left). Eyebrows were raised when the then PM's wife wore a collection of expensive frocks at a G2 summit.  No one was funding her fashion habit. She had rented the outfits at a fraction of the cost of buying, from her preferred designers including Amanda Wakeley. 

As I drop another item onto the bedroom floor, my daughter, Sophie, fixes me with a quizzical look. We're sorting through my cupboards, so I can have a clear-out and she can assess if there's anything worth selling online. Sophie's clearly perplexed by the sheer volume of items being discarded. 'You really want to get rid of all of these things?' she muses with disbelief, as she holds up a size ten lilac-coloured number from Reiss which I bought several years ago. Memorably (for me, anyway), I wore it for my inaugural appearance on Question Time. It's not the only outfit to be jettisoned during this ruthless cull - from the royal blue Max Mara dress, accessorised with a gilt star-shaped belt, that I wore to a family wedding, to a yellow button-down frock sprigged with white roses and which, though only a few years old, would still see me through plenty of summer parties.

It's 4pm on a Thursday and I'm walking to the nursery gates dressed in a Burberry trench and carrying a Gucci handbag worth £490. It's safe to say this is not my usual attire; my typical nursery pick-up look involves jeans and trainers. Yet they're not the only designer items to make an appearance in my wardrobe this week. On Monday I wore a Chanel jumper to the supermarket. For a work meeting on Wednesday I shrugged on a pink Amanda Wakeley coat. My sudden luxe-up isn't the result of a shopping blow-out. Instead, I rented my outfits for a snip of the cost. That Burberry trench, which would have cost £1,290 new, set me back just £144 to borrow for seven days. Estimated to be worth over £2 billion by 2029, the UK fashion rental market is booming.

When it comes to favourite outfits, why not get a little extra wear down the generations? This holds true for royal mother-daughter pairings as well as others, including late Queen Anne and Princess Anne, Queen Mary of Denmark, and Princess Letizia of Spain and daughter Princess Leonor. These photos show that a number of royal women have had memorable twinning experiences in recent years.

She has worked for some of the world's most expensive luxury brands. Elle Macpherson has said that the clothes women wear make no difference to how attractive they are. 'I think that the way we stay fashionable is to always be aligned with who you are,' the Australian supermodel, 59, said on designer Amanda Wakeley's podcast.'

Amanda Wakeley, who is best known for her work with both Princess Diana and Kate Middleton, was full of praise for the Prince of Wales' wife. 'The suit she wore to the Trooping the Colour this summer may have been out of Diana's closet,' she told host Jo Elvin.' Rebecca English of the Daily Mail said she didn't believe Kate, 41, intentionally models her beauty after Diana's.

Vick Hope made a rare mention of her fiancé Calvin Harris this week when she recalled a sweet tale in which the DJ, 39, gushed over her. Amanda Wakeley, 33, discussed attending the BAFTA's in February while not appearing on a new episode of podcast Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA. And as the actress remembered the evening, she also stated that her appearance with fiancé Calvin went well, and she couldn't help but gush over her.

Several stores along the main thoroughfare in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, have had their display windows emblazoned with pictures of happy shoppers. One reads 'book store' and shows a stunning wooden library, while another says 'fashion store,' and a photograph of people browsing through clothes. It comes after troubling statistics revealed last month that 47 stores closed for good every single day in 2022, the worst 12 months for the high street since 2017. The double whammy of Covid and the cost-of-living crisis have only contributed to the Great British High Street's woes in recent years, with internet shopping's profits and customer base declining. Across the country, once burgeoning shopping districts are now brimming with empty shops and scores of closing down sales.

Tasha Ghouri has shared more about her childhood, saying that it was where she had her 'darkest moments' before discovering her self-confidence. Although most people might have assumed she had always been strong, the Love Island actress, 24, said that it was something she had to work on. Tasha's style DNA test revealed that she was not always positive.' Growing up wasn't particularly pleasant for me physically.

Frankie Bridge wowed in a figure-hugging black maxi-dress as she attended the Hello! On Tuesday, Corinthia, London, received the Inspiration Award. As she posed on the red carpet ahead of the star-studded dinner, the singer, 33, looked naturally beautiful in the chic ensemble. Frankie teamed up with a tailored black blazer over her shoulders, whilst raising her height with a pair of pointed toe ankle boots.

Amanda Wakeley says she has never really been wired to hide under the duvet when life throws a whole lot of cr**' at her. "All in life is a war — we just muscle up." I think that's quite a male take on it,' she says, but it's a mantra she's made herself.' 'Actually, it's a war.' Everyone's been knocked. It's how you deal with them.' Of course, it is sober. Amanda has had to'muscle up' to the kind of bruising blows that would flatten a heavyweight boxer over the past two years. Her luxurious fashion label, which had ploughed the best part of her adult life and was, she admits, a child of sorts, devolved into administration six months ago. Charlie, her 'fearless, amazing' brother, died at the age of 62, just over a week later. Charlie, the younger of her two brothers, a respected radiologist who was happily married with two grown-up boys, had been fighting a brain tumor for fifteen months. His death, she said, came nearly a year to the day after the two men who brutally assaulted her were sentenced to ten years in prison. Amanda was threatened with an axe and throttled in a tussle for her gold Rolex in 2019.

Trinny Woodall has openly discussed her time in recovery and revealed that panic attacks occurred because she 'didn't know who she was' when she was' when sober. The Trinny London owner, who has been sober for 32 years, admitted to going to rehab to address her alcohol and heroin use, but the after effects weren't all positive.

KATE WILLS: We've all arrived dressed to make an entrance, but Carrie Johnson showed yesterday that even in the right outfit you will make a memorable exit. In a fuchsia, waist-cinched, maxi-dress style worn by No 10 (pictured right), the departing first lady waved goodbye to No 10 in a fuchsia, waist-cinched, maxi-dress (pictured right) from British label Harmur. The brand's tagline? 'No sexier way to walk away.' Well, indeed. There was also no savvier one available. The £495 gown sold out within hours of Carrie's appearance, just like the pink Ghost tea dress she wore on her arrival at Downing Street in 2019 (pictured left).

Amanda Wakeley says wearing denim cut-offs is incredibly liberating. The best way to style denim shorts is by a London-based fashion designer. According to her, an unbelted kimono provides quick arm and top-of-leg coverage. Styling: Alexandria Dale, Pictures: Lezli + Rose, Hair and makeup: Desmond Grundy using Bare Minerals and Moroccanoil, Model: lauren at Nevs, Fashion Assistants: hope palmer and Alice Hare