Sophie Haslett
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Sophie Haslett is a freelance journalist specialising in fashion, the arts and lifestyle. Originally from Dublin, she currently lives in London, where she is a post-graduate student of journalism at City University. She has contributed to and written for several British and Irish publications, including The Irish Times fashion supplement, The Times and Grazia magazine. She is currently editing and writing for an online arts magazine, www.theharker.com, which she has set up while at City. A lover of Kate Moss, leopard print and glossy magazines, she is too often to be found rummaging through rails of beautiful clothes.

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Teenage Dream

0 Comments | Posted 25 January 2012 | (10:11)

Ten-year old (yes, 10) Kaia Crawford is "one to watch" if you believe this week's Grazia (which, incidentally, I generally do). Lottie Moss, Kate Moss's 13-year-old step-sister, has been signed up to Storm Model Management before she has even hit puberty. 15-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, meanwhile, is currently enjoying a stint...

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The Only Way is...Fantasy

0 Comments | Posted 10 December 2011 | (11:50)

"I'm against reality," Karl Lagerfeld said, as he unveiled his Bombay-inspired pre-autumn/winter 2012-13 collection in the heart of fantasy, Paris, last week. "This is the Paris version of the idea of India," he continued, in all his Burton-esque resplendent glory.

Despite never having visited Bombay or even...

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The Only Way is...Versace

0 Comments | Posted 18 November 2011 | (09:59)

And so, after weeks of carefully-created media hype, an appearance by Prince at the Manhattan catwalk show last week, and almost offensively large posters dominating London's central tube stations, Thursday and the launch of Versace for H&M finally came around.

And boy, did you have to be there. As brand...

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The Only Way is... Essex?

0 Comments | Posted 22 October 2011 | (00:00)

Like it or loathe it, there's one trend this autumn that is getting increasingly hard to avoid. When I think of it, I think of tan. I think of false eyelashes, of white stilettos, and of round-the-clock maintenance. It is not fashionable, edgy or remotely high-brow, but somehow it is...

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New Season Dressing

0 Comments | Posted 15 October 2011 | (13:15)

Now I'm all for the fact that fashion is a serious, important and lucrative industry, but every once in a while isn't it lovely to embrace its sheer flippancy? If the spring/summer'12 catwalk shows are anything to go by, it certainly is. With everything from pasta prints at Dolce &...

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