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Stuart grew up in Glasgow and spent his twenties working in retail buying before realising the industry made more sense to him as a subject than a career. He moved to London, took a postgraduate diploma in journalism and began writing about fashion and design from a distinctly non-glossy angle — less catwalk, more high street; less celebrity, more craft. His work has appeared in style, culture and general interest publications and he has built a reputation for pieces that take fashion seriously without taking themselves too seriously. He lives in South London, dresses better than he admits and knows more about trainers than is probably healthy.

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Personal Style After 40 and Why the Best Dressing Is Yet to Come
Style

Personal Style After 40: Dressing With More Freedom, Not More Rules

Style after 40 does not need a rescue plan. It also does not arrive with a universal set of rules about hemlines, colour,...

Cottagecore and the British Countryside Fantasy Taking Over Social Media
Style

Cottagecore and the British Countryside Fantasy Online

Cottagecore turns rural life into a visual language: floral dresses, old kitchens, wildflowers, bread, sewing, baskets and the suggestion of a slower daily...

Gen Z Fashion and the Style Rules This Generation Is Rewriting
Style

Gen Z Style in Britain: Vintage, Comfort and Fewer Fixed Rules

There is no single Gen Z wardrobe. That is the first useful correction to most discussions of the subject. Younger shoppers may mix...

Vintage Fashion and Why British Shoppers Are Choosing Secondhand
Style

Vintage and Secondhand Fashion in Britain: Style Without the Hype

Secondhand clothing has moved well beyond the old divide between charity-shop bargain hunting and specialist vintage collecting. In Britain today, the market stretches...

British Street Style and What London Is Wearing Right Now
Style

London Street Style: Layers, Vintage and Dressing for the City

London street style is difficult to summarise because the city does not dress as one place. What appears in Shoreditch, Peckham, Soho or...

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Culture

The Light Opens in Durham With a Major Exhibition on Light

A new cultural venue opens in Durham on 22 August, bringing contemporary art, local history and a restored museum building back into public...

Culture

Terrane Turns Jewellery Into a Map of Place and Memory

Amid the noise of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a small jewellery exhibition in Stockbridge is asking visitors to look at landscape in a...

People

Small Talk in Britain and Why Brief Encounters Still Matter

Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...

Home

Community Gardens and the Shared Life Growing Between the Beds

Community gardens are easy to romanticise. A few raised beds, a shed and a line of beans can quickly become shorthand for neighbourliness,...

Style

Personal Style After 40: Dressing With More Freedom, Not More Rules

Style after 40 does not need a rescue plan. It also does not arrive with a universal set of rules about hemlines, colour,...

Food

Home Baking and the Everyday Pleasure of Making Something From Scratch

Home baking does not need to be described as a revival, a form of therapy or an antidote to modern life to be...