by Claire Etchell | 23rd May 2023 | London, Naked Events, Naked Feature
Welcome to Belgravia in Bloom 2023, which runs alongside the Chelsea Flower Show each year and is a hop, skip and a jump away from Chelsea in Bloom 2023 which is around the corner. Running through the are from Elizabeth Street, Motcomb Street, Halkin Street and...
by Claire Etchell | 22nd May 2023 | London, Naked Events, Naked Feature
Chelsea in Bloom is spectacular every year and I love rounding up the best displays for Instagram. There’s beautiful and fragrant real blooms as well as realistic fake flowers which make spectacular displays. This year, for Chelsea in Bloom 2023, the theme is...
by Claire Etchell | 22nd May 2019 | London, Naked Events
Every May the highly anticipated Chelsea Flower Show rolls into London and with it, we celebrate Chelsea in Bloom as the shop fronts get a floral makeover for the week from 20 – 25 May. This year the theme is Under the Sea (2018 was the Summer of Love as Meghan...
by Claire Etchell | 25th October 2018 | London, Naked Events, Naked Feature
It has been 100 years since the end of the First World War and it is important that we take time out to reflect and remember all of the fallen. It is often a difficult task to market a historical event and I’d like to do my little bit to share the ways you can join in...
by Claire Etchell | 17th October 2018 | London, Naked Events, Naked Feature, Seasonal
Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cash tills bubble. When did Halloween become such a marketing winner? All Hallows’ Eve has transformed from a celebration of a Western Christian feast into a month long, supermarket filled,...
by Claire Etchell | 25th June 2018 | London, Naked Events, Naked Feature
I would be very happy if it was Royal Ascot every single day. I love the elegance, I like the rush of excitement when I see the races, I love the outfits, I love the names of the horses, the colours the jockeys wear, I love the fact that men have top hats and I even...
by Claire Etchell | 27th October 2017 | London, Naked Events, Naked Feature, Seasonal
When I was growing up, Halloween was one night a year, you’d carve a pumpkin or a turnip and wear a makeshift witches outfit and off you trotted trick or treating. Now we’ve gone ALL American about it and it practically lasts a whole month with decorations and fancy...
by Claire Etchell | 28th May 2016 | London, Naked Events, Naked Review
What’s a flipping silver gilt when it’s at home? Why does a show garden differ from a artisan garden? Do I have to wear white linen trousers to get in? Will they know the only flower I’ve successfully kept alive is a flaming Katie from Tesco? These...
by Claire Etchell | 23rd May 2016 | London, Naked Events
RHS Chelsea Flower Show is a huge event in London with thousands of people descending on the capital each May to see the fabulous blooms on display. This year is no exception and the surrounding retailers take part in ‘Chelsea in Bloom’ which this year has...
by Claire Etchell | 15th May 2016 | Naked Events, Recent Work
Zouk restaurant in Manchester reached their 7th year in business last week so they threw a party to end all parties! Zouk was started up by two entrepreneurial brothers, Tayub and Mudassar Amjad (pictured above), who create great food in cool, relaxed restaurants and...
by Claire Etchell | 19th February 2016 | Naked Events
Isn’t the Rosewood Hotel a marvelous setting for Duchamp? This swishy London hotel was the backdrop for Duchamp’s AW16 collection. This happened way back in January for London Collection’s Men, so in blogging terms, I am so behind the curve,...
by Claire Etchell | 27th January 2016 | Naked Events
As a relative novice in menswear, this was my first visit to Chester Barrie’s LCM show, but boy they knocked my socks off. The venue was a sublime room at the Waldorf Hilton which was so grand, I could have just stayed there forever. It had much the red...
by Claire Etchell | 26th January 2016 | London, Naked Events
Turnbull and Asser are the classiest of menswear brands; established 1885, received their first Royal Warrant from Edward VII, make a lot of bespoke pieces, made in England, tally ho chaps! Their SS16 LCM launch was an in-store only affair which was small...
by Claire Etchell | 12th January 2016 | Naked Events
For last LCM, Belstaff took their SS16 range off to the dessert. Well to be factually accurate, they moved sand dunes into the Old Billingsgate where models stood under hot lights where outside stood an army vehicle with The Shard and Tower Bridge...
by Claire Etchell | 28th November 2015 | Naked Events
I am a believer in the power of costume. Clothes can create an image that quite often signals social, economic and political status. In film, characters can be good, bad, rich, poor, from a different era, blending in, standing out, on the rise, on the edge, and all...
by Claire Etchell | 1st October 2015 | Naked Events
Why oh WHY would you do a marathon? That’s what you must be thinking. This is what I was thinking at mile 21 in the dark streets of London. Walking a marathon has never been a lifelong dream or something I have ever strived for. But the reason I walked...
by Claire Etchell | 28th September 2015 | Naked Events, Naked Feature
As preconceptions go, Alexandra Shulman has a lot to live up to, after all she is the editor of Vogue, the most formidable and revered of fashion magazines – even Carrie Bradshaw struggled to be ‘Vogue’. Alexandra Shulman is being interviewed for Apple’s In...
by Claire Etchell | 10th September 2015 | Naked Events, Naked Feature
On Tuesday this week the fash pack (including one Liz Hurley in an incredible Amanda Wakeley black dress) descended on the V&A to see legendary shoe maker Patrick Cox being interviewed by Kinvara Balfour. You know how much I love Kinvara from her Getting Naked...
by Claire Etchell | 16th May 2015 | Naked Events
The lingerie market is one that interests me, as I discussed in my post ‘Who Sells You Your Pants’ – I’m always intrigued by the marketing ploys we use when simply trying to flog the essentials. Often it can feel like we’re overselling...
by Claire Etchell | 12th March 2015 | London, Naked Events, Naked Review
Alexander McQueen was a creative genius and joined together beauty, art, sculpture, history and culture all into one beautiful vision of fashion. His clothes were crafted, almost sculpted and he could see beauty in the ordinary or as he said himself, “I think...
