Hello and welcome to the second incarnation of my fashion and style webpage A Blush of Rose, it's lovely to see you here and I hope you enjoy seeing and reading my reports and projects. I've had some time away in the last couple of years for family reasons to be a carer and putting family first and stepping away for a while has felt the right thing to do. This bizarrely began a few months ahead of the pandemic though just like everyone else, I've been riding the tide of the 'new normal', into a hopeful future.

This new page is a work in progress but is back in action now in Spring 2024 whilst I balance around ongoing Stuarts research. I have work to be added in diary-style feature pages from 2021, 2022 into '23 features, whilst I'm also on the catch-up with Haute Couture write-ups too. You can still see most of my archive going back to 2009 when the Website began through a tab on the menu to the left hand side of the screen. This is when I first launched 'A Blush of Rose' to record some of my interests in fashion and things I was doing around London and sometimes over in Paris going forward as they happened. This followed after first having the idea of the name and a web page in a flash about a year earlier in Spring or Autumn 2008 when walking in one of my favourite spots in Kensington Gardens one weekend. At that time I had no idea how to start a blog and had no computer even so I started storyboarding by hand and thinking about the sort of things I wanted to cover and explore when I would be able to do this.

The older original site will always stay online as it represents so much work and things I hoped to achieve and enjoyed. I'm grateful to my faithful readers for patience as I get back on track in Spring 2024 starting with picking up from Haute Couture from July '21 alongside family duties and my Stuarts research career, and looking at new projects. Some new feature headings will appear below in due course with more recent work but hey, AW19-20 looked pretty good and will do for now until I get things fixed. I'm prioritising getting Haute Couture up to date as the craft element has always been a favourite of mine. After all the twists and turns of the past few years, I still love fashion, style and craftsmanship. Thank you everyone for your support :-) Angela

My seasonal chapters from London Fashion Week are online with a little bit more to add for autumn as we head into the season. Many reports include photography shot by me either at the Catwalk or Backstage.

A look at the Bollinger Gallery re-opened at the V&A Museum.

The archive of jewellery housed by the V&A is one of the oldest parts of it's collection and thanks the the generosity of the Bollinger family, a larger number of objects are now on display in cases that show the pieces to much better effect. It's free to enter and you can spend as much time as you would wish, exploring and drawing objects or simply marvelling at craft from the ancient world up to today.

Huishan is a fantastic talent, hand-picked by Delphine Arnault to spend part of his third year of univeristy study in the Atelier's of Dior in Paris. There is a classic look of elegance in his work that is hard to miss and whilst he's undoubtedly spontaneous in his creativity, his designs encompass both the classic and new in one easy moment.