I am very bad at painting my nails. As far as I can tell, painting the dominant hand with the non-dominant hand is as tricky as finding the perfect lipstick, jean or bobble hat, all tasks I wouldn't wish on an enemy. But I am particularly inept.

We are also seeing a new generation of highly-talented designers such as Elie Saab, Robert Abi Nader Abed Mahfouz, Walid Attalah, Essa from the UAE and others who continue to impress the international fashion world with their fusion of modern and Muslim-inspired elements into their ensembles.

Luxury fashion cannot just be equated to 'carrying a designer handbag on your arm'; it's the lifestyle we experience. In the words of Coco Chanel, 'Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, with the way we live.'

Fashion Week has come and gone, ending with its grand finale in Paris as the style set sat for some of next season's most amazing and memorable collections.

Wow! It's so warm I'm wearing a summery blouse today! Looks like we finally got our first glimpse of Spring...so in the spirit of that, I'm wearing a flowy bird and floral print long blouse.

In this era of peacock dressing, where designers must display the very pinnacle of creativity or be doomed for the sample sale rail, the shoe has risen to the challenge.

I want you to know that I don't wear vintage every day. No sir! I am actually a little bit of a designer whore on the side... Give me access to Net-a-Porter, a juicy Malbec (see my bio) and a flexible friend (Monsieur's Visa or Amex, I'm not fussy) and you can keep me quiet for hours.

I was first bitten by the vintage bug in 1983, borrowing my grandma's 60s kitten heeled sling backs - they had toes so pointed you could have impaled anyone you kicked. I carefully borrowed a few of grannie's pieces - mostly shoes, jewellery and handbags to add to my puff ball skirts, explosive hair and wrist to elbow silver slave bangles.

Vogue Paris has rounded up the best in-between season looks and gives an exclusive recap of the Pre-Fall collections.

It's official - Scotland is having a fashion moment. Harvey Nichols has just celebrated its 10th anniversary, Hayley Scanlan was name Scottish Young Designer of the Year 2012, and today, fashion designer extraordinaire, Karl Lagerfeld, brings CHANEL's Métiers d'Art 2012/13 show to the capital city, Edinburgh.

Simple, solid, classic colours- you can't go wrong with this combination no matter how you throw it together. Today I'm wearing one of my go-to simple grey jumpers, vintage gilet, black jeans, classic bag, and plum coloured heels to add a bit of colour. I've matched the gold soles with the gold hardware on the bag which subtly pulls the outfit together nicely.

A couple of weeks ago, style maven Bay Garnett and some of her very fashionable friends, such as Jasmine and Rebecca Guinness, Jade Parfitt and Camill...

Jewel tones are my favourite colours and today I'm wearing a deep rich hue of purple. It has a side neck tie which dresses up the outfit and keeps me warmer as well. I have paired it with the Zara 'tweed' style jacket I wore a few posts ago.

The enormous handbag was unveiled at the SS2013 Paris catwalk show; carried along by a six feet tall leggy stick figured creature, slash, model. She was wearing a swimming costume, which for the record, is the natural choice of attire for a giant bag resting on two hula hoops.

Fashion's big night out is tonight, and we've got the Paris special editions in... Lanvin, Chanel, Michael Kors, Aurélie Bidermann, and Paul Smith ...

Someone mentioned that I haven't posted anything I've been wearing for the evenings in the last couple of months....so here we go!