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Jan 20

What Dress Size Are You?

One of Frost’s favourite things this week was being told about this site, that lets you know what dress size you are, by our writer Alexa Brown. It is a great site where you just move the tab around and it tells you what dress size you are in all of the different stores. From …

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Oct 02

LONDON PROMOTES: New Rights For Models

Victoria Keon-Cohen has spent the last ten years working as a fashion model and knows both the highs and lows of the job. “I hated modelling for a long time because of the isolation. I was constantly gritting my teeth to get through the day. The industry is a far cry from what it was …

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May 02

Coeliac Disease: A Personal View

It is just over six months since I was diagnosed with coeliac disease. Since then I have not intentionally eaten any gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. This means no warm French bread, no buttered crumpets, no tea cakes, hot cross buns, scones or pancakes; no Hobnobs, crackers or Twixes; no spaghetti …

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Sep 12

How Equity Is Helping Models At Work {Careers}

Equity has opened its doors to Models and a new catwalk contract has been introduced in time for London Fashion Week (starting later this week on the 17th) . It seems impossible that in 2010 in the UK there could be areas of work uncovered by contracts, established breaks or health and safety procedures. It …

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Jun 14

Alexa's Beauty Recommendations [Beauty]

Beauty recommendations are sometimes PR hype. We were not given any of these products for free and this is all from personal recommendation. As a refreshing alternative, we offer this list of tried and tested products, some familiar, some enjoyably obscure. MeMeMe Fat Cat Mascara Mascara MeMeMe Fat Cat Lashes. The wand has a huge …

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Apr 28

Florence + Florence by Alexa Brown {Style}

Mother and daughter team, Florence and Florence, are a particularly endearing set-up. In their front room in north London we have arranged ourselves amongst pots of tea and decorative cake stands to discuss their new business selling ‘re-loved’ vintage goods. The conversation pings about between them; sentences are shared and overlapped as they discuss the …

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