Swimwear Through The Ages
Early bathing costumes had more to do with modesty than with looks or function and although Victorian women wore bathing costumes at the beach, a woman could not certainly swim in one comfortably. The...
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Editorial - Wellbeing
Gill Meets Annette Luck
As a long-term sufferer of Keratosis Pilaris, what was the inspiration to create your own product? Having grown up with KP, and reaching adulthood unable to find a satisfactory answer, I became frust...
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Perfume – And The Fallen Angel Of Our Senses
I love, love, love perfume – don’t you? From a teenager, my dressing table’s been cluttered with a joyous array of bottles: Miss Dior, Eau Sauvage, Chanel No. 22 (I prefer this little known ‘relative’...
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How I Cope With Stress
There are times in life when what’s going on threatens to send someone off the top of the stress-o-meter, and this has been one of them for me. I’ve a ‘fragrant’ new venture launching mid-May (Gill wi...
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Gill meets Soapsmith
When was Soapsmith founded and what was your first ever product? Soapsmith was founded in 2010 but did not start selling until 2012 when we launched in Harrods. We wanted to get the products and the...
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Gill meets Annee de Mamiel
Discovering Botaniques Following her own health crisis in 1998, Annee de Mamiel could not find a natural, healing product that worked. This re-ignited a passion for mixing and blending, which first a...
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