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When death strikes twice – the end of my love affair with dresses
My name is Siobhan Roberts and there was once a time when I had a love affair with dresses. It began a number of years ago when I was at the tender age of six. It was an unusually warm […]
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Vogue 100: A Century of Style at Manchester Art Gallery
This year the fashion world has been celebrating the 100th birthday of one of the worlds most iconic fashion magazines, British Vogue. Designers created one off pieces to celebrate a century of Vogue, including Burberry trench coats and bottles of […]
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My not-so-wicked Stepmother
When you are a young child clothes don’t mean an awful lot. However, my relationship with my step-mother, Lorraine, is one of the most important things in my life and my first memory with her is buying a dress. Lorraine […]
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“I sat next to Channing Tatum in the VIP section – that doesn’t happen at the Stadium of Light!”
Millions of us across the globe tune in for our weekly fix of Keeping up with the Kardashians for a tiny glimpse into the rich and famous lifestyles of the world’s most famous fashion sisters. But for Sunderland-born Elisa Fromson, […]
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Wrapped up in a memory
My Grandpa Sonny was quiet, one of those people that when they had something to say, everyone would listen because of its rarity. His skin had valleys marking age and wisdom and his eyes told stories of pain and […]
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Ex-Apprentice star Katie Bulmer-Cooke sets up fitness shop in The Bridges, Sunderland
You may recognise her from BBC’s The Apprentice, but fitness guru Katie Bulmer-Cooke is no apprentice now a she begins her latest successful business venture, a pop-up store in The Bridges shopping centre, Sunderland. The store opening is all part of Katie’s […]