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Susanne James
Production:
Dawn East
Web
JJ Jay
Media
Lisa Piercy
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But let’s face it: our quest for happiness through over-consumption isn’t good for us or the planet
Don’t panic. You can be a bit bad without being evil. Just do one thing.
Shopping better might not be “knit-your-own- muesli” worthy but it’s worthy enough to avoid some of that post- consumption hangover. And that little hit of worthiness will give you double the kick you’re looking for. We’re all about that kick and can tell you that you can satisfy the craving and still live with yourself. Here are some ways we do it.
Go to extremes.
Only buy things you absolutely need or will regret not having in five years. If you’re simply in the mood to spend money, don’t. Of course there are some things you probably do need to buy regularly. We’re not saying you should go about in pants with holes.
Need a fix? Walk down the street. Give Mary Portas a hand by shopping on our high streets now. Instead of collapsing into an online shopping coma, put on your shoes, pop into a local shop, chat with the owner and feel good.
Not got a high street? Shop local online.
If it’s Primark v Asda on your high street, virtually nip off to someone else’s. Wander into Red Ruby Rouge, a boutique on the high street in Holywood to browse the latest from young American designers. Head next door, a mere click away, to Inis on the High Street in Hawick for a look at the homegrown Scottish style. Finish up near us on Shoreditch High Street at the Milk Concept Boutique. You can support small boutiques no matter where they are.
Charity shops are always good.
You can’t go wrong shopping at a charity shop. Have regrets? Donate it back. Win, win.
Remember: go further, hardcore can be fun.
We at UpStyler want to be better. This issue is all about being off grid and off kilter. We’re hankering after the good life. This mood might not last long but we’ll enjoy it while it does. We hope you do, too.
The UpStyler Team x
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Front cover: Photography / Lee Jenkins | Model / Verity at Elite
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Move away from the TV
Green fingers on the pulse
Dream of an allotment but discouraged by lists years long? There are other ways to grab a bit of land.
James Binning, the fingers behind the greenery at Snakeskin Jacket, found his through What if: projects, which develops “sustainable environments .. implemented through the engagement and participation of local communities”.
Other projects have taken up the mantle as well. Capital Growth “aims to create 2012 new community food growing spaces across London” and is looking for help. Landshare “brings together people who have a passion for home-grown food, connecting those who have land to share” and has spaces as well as requests for usable land across the UK.
Sowing Sneinton is a community gardening project started by Suzanna Bedford and Donya Coward. Both felt that the general look of Sneinton was neglected and depressing and took the risk of doing a walk around the area with local councillors to explain their idea of planting and maintaining untended spaces. A year on, there’s a flower bed, a herb bed, a fruit garden in conjunction with local growers Ecoworks and they’ve just planted a small woodland area. Email for information.
Make flowers, not war
Dirt all around you but not a place to plant? Try guerrilla gardening! Log on to the Guerrilla Gardening site for tips, support and to coordinate with other guerrillas, then grab a Seedbom, don your upcycled kagool and get dirty.
Go for it, grow your own - there’s still time this summer to get started.
Seedbom 4 pack
£9.95 kabloomshop.co.uk
A Honey Bee Necklace or Burt’s Bees Radiance pack
Keep bees happy!
Capital Bee promote the following four pledges to help support our declining bee population.
1. Grow your own food
Attract foraging bees and provide something for you to eat, too.
2. Plant bee-friendly plants
Grow native plants or allowing ‘weeds’ will create a local seasonal diet for bees.
3. Create a bee-friendly garden
Use organic, non-toxic pesticides in your garden or none at all.
4. Buy something organic Organic is good, especially if it is produced locally or in the UK.
The hilarious Bee Somebody has the mission statement: “New hobby. Learn more about nature. Make honey.”
Beekeeping starter kit
£359, Beechwood Bees
Undercover T shirt
£309, farfetch.com
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The hedgerow
By Janet MacLeod
(Dawn’s gran)
There is a little lane leading down to a farm which I took to walking with my son’s retriever for a few weeks. The pace meant that I noticed the wonderful plants growing up in the grasses on the verge under the hedgerow. As the plants grew taller, I decided to make a list of all of them and made a start with a bit of paper from my jacket pocket. Imagine my shock when the next morning, I saw the verge completely cut low. Worried and sad, I remembered my son’s wife had told me about a charity called Plant Life. I am now a member and can make a difference. I do wonder how many of those flowers from my grandma’s book are still with us (it was printed in 1924).
3 nettle leaves
2 teaspoons sugar
150mL apple and elderflower juice
blueberries
few sprigs of mint
1. Muddle nettle leaves, sugar and blueberries in a cocktail shaker.
2. Pour in juice.
3. Fill with ice and shake.
4. Strain into glass and garnish with mint.
lots of sloe berries
150g sugar
1 bottle gin
1. Pick ripe sloes from Blackthorn hedges in October or November.
2. Drink half the bottle of gin.
3. Cut or prick the sloes and drop into the half-full bottle.
4. Turn daily for a week, then weekly for a month or two and it’s done!
5. Go to www.sloe.biz for more information.
receive free seeds at select National Trust properties
There is nothing hotter
than the 70s mum look
Get back to the natural look, ditch the wax and the make up, get the camp bed out and soak up those rays while reading some feminist literature.
Photography / Ruby Munson-Hirst Styling / Emma Sherlock & Ruby Munson-Hirst Post Production / Jack Casey, Makeup & hair / Emma Sherlock, Model / Alexandra Davey
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collecting samphire on the shore
Photography / Dan Annett
Fashion / Freya Barlow
Model / Natalia Skorek at First Model Management
Hair and makeup / Afton Radihucuc at S Management using Mac
Production / Sevensixproduction.com
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Foraging is not just for the hedgerows, it’s a seaside pastime too
Samphire is a sea vegetable that grows on shorelines, in marshy shallows and on salty mudflats - plenty in the UK. It has a crunchy texture and tastes of the seaside.
Wash samphire thoroughly under running water. No need add salt to the cooking water. Use fresh in salads or serve it boiled and dipped in melted butter, yum. Go search for your free sea pickle or buy at thefishsociety.co.uk.
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Photography / Lee Jenkins, Fashion / Freya Barlow, Model / Verity at Elite, Body painting / Cat Finlayson / bodypaintingbycat.com,
Hair and make up / Marlene Andersson using Bobbi Brown and label.m Professional Haircare, Location / nuttyfarm.co.uk
Curve:
the loveliest distance between two points.
Mae West
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Make cobbler
from JJ
My late gran’s quick cobbler recipe - this is for those times I come back with only a couple of handfuls of berries.
65g flour
100g caster sugar
1t baking powder
1/4 t salt
120 mL milk
1/4 t vanilla
60g butter
a couple of handfuls of fruit
Preheat the oven to 200C. Melt all of the butter in an 8" baking pan. Mix together the rest of the ingredients except for the fruit. Pour the thin batter into the pan and then place the fruit on top. It will look particularly odd. Bake for about 30 minutes until the top is golden and firm and the fruit is bubbling away underneath. Let cool then serve with ice cream or double cream.
Just as women’s bodies are softer than men’s, so their understanding is sharper.
Christine de Pizan
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Rebecca Pearson of First Models talks plants.
I’ll be honest - the last thing I grew was a puny sunflower for a Blue Peter competition but it’s time to have a pop with some pots outside my ground floor window. It’ll be nice to refresh my lungs rather than my Facebook page. I’ll start small - a wee herb box and some colourful edible flowers to brighten up my plates but soon I’ll be cultivating marrows!
Follow Rebecca on twitter: @rebeccapearson
Illustration above right
designed in 1942 and © Estate of Abram Games
Photography / Toby Hudson at PLN management, Fashion / Freya Barlow, Model / Lew at M & P models / Location / ecoworks community gardens
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Freya says: Fashion is not a mould to be copied. Remember to retain a sense of your personal style at all times.
Charity Shopping Tips For the Boys
from Freya Barlow
1. Location! Venture to posher postcodes outside the city centre for junk free shops and designer bargains.
2. The Early Bird
Try and shop early in the week, most people will donate at the weekend so first thing Tuesday is perfect.
3. Dig Deep
Don’t be afraid to get stuck in and rummage, the best finds are often hidden.
4. Shop often
Stock changes almost daily.
5. Beware the hangover.
My boyfriend went charity shopping after a night out and came back proudly brandishing a 90’s denim gold studded cap. You have been warned!
So chaps, what are you waiting for...
If you've never gone charity shopping for menswear, here are some tips and inspiration to get you going.
Horace patterned t shirt
£50, farfetch.com
Hunter Thurloe Lace up
£79, mrporter.com
Limited Edition T
£79, collectlondon.com
Fred Perry T
£29, oipolloi.com
Cord Levi jacket
£29, upstyler.co.uk
Hi Vintage boots
£50, kickers.co.uk
Contast Harrington Jacket
£80, topman.com
Greg blazer
£90, komodo.co.uk
Monkee
jeans!
Plum chinos
£65, monkeegenes.com
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Pai Chamomile & Rosehip Sensitive Skin Cream
£22.00 paiskincare.com Organic, soothing moisturiser made in the UK.
Manuka Honey
£18.49, comvita.co.uk
Still all the rage, this claims to have antibacterial properties. You can use it in your potions and spread on toast, too.
Live Native Love Lube
£44.85, livenative.co.uk
An organic, "raw" sex lube which glides on and doesn’t leave a mess.
1. Face masque from model Rebecca Pearson
Mix Manuka honey (it must be Manuka), a spoonful of sugar, squidge of vitamin E oil and a squeeze of lemon. Leave it on for 15 minutes. Wash off with warm water and scrub lightly in a circular motion. You’ll have seriously soft skin!
2. Beauty Elixir
Tata Harper, now available exclusively at Space NK, has a summer elixir recipe to refresh you. The recipe and her blog is here.
3. Oatmeal bath
Take a couple handfuls of oatmeal and put them in a muslin. Add roughly chopped lavender. Tie under the tap and run the water through it. Your skin will be softer and the mild lavender scent will relax you.
Revel in the fact you have spent time making it and savour feeling ‘like a natural woman’
Part of the allure of summer is being able to scale back. A bit of colour from the longer days allows you to lighten up your routine. There’s no need to completely shun the sun, even Cancer Research UK says that “sunlight is important for making vitamin D but a little exposure goes a long way”.
Along with being able to get away with a bit less makeup, there is the opportunity to make your own skincare. Here are three recipes we have come across and a few product recommendations for natural products you might find difficult to make at home.
Pai skincare and a consultation enter here
Photography / Davinia Hammond, Fashion / Marge and Mabel, Model / Gertrude at First, Hair and make-up/ Marlene Andersson using Bobbi Brown and label.m Professional Haircare, Location / Foundation PR’s rooftop
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Balance Me new facial range
Name: Rebecca, Clare and Sian
Company: Balance Me
Contact: balanceme.co.uk
For British sisters Rebecca and Clare Hopkins (ex- L’OreĢal and ex-Cap Gemini respectively), creating Balance Me was not just about creating a simple, affordable yet luxurious aromatherapy-based natural bath and body range, it was a chance to change the way they lived their lives. Founded in 2005 after a major high street retailer requested 200 exfoliating polishes for the VIPs attending a launch, Balance Me was offered a ‘pop up shop’ in the same store later that year. Sian Jones (ex M&S) joined the brand the following year and Balance Me is now available nationwide.
BALANCE ME BEAUTY TIPS
Clare: Drink plenty of water, make sure you have fresh air daily and do something for yourself each week to keep yourself inspired from cooking a new recipe to trying a new fitness class.
Rebecca: I truly recommend dry body brushing, in the direction of your heart, before you bathe or shower, to keep skin’s lustre. Use two brushes - it’s quicker!
Sian: Smile! A smile will naturally light up your face.
Q&A
What is the most important factor when creating a product?
Clare: The product must perform as there is no point creating the most natural product you can achieve and then it doesn’t work.
What is your beauty regime?
Rebecca: Fast but effective, especially in the morning. Cold water on my face, our new moisturiser that I’m addicted to, body brushing, followed by an application of our super oil all over my body to keep me toned. It takes less than five minutes.
COMPETITIONS
BURT’S BEES
ALEX MONROE
PAI SKINCARE
MONKEE JEANS
BALANCE ME
ME & ZENA
RUBY + ED
HONEYBUNS
BEYOND SKIN
BRYONY LLOYD
HANNAH MAKES THINGS
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Petal Power from The Flower Appreciation Society
The moment they met, Anna and Ellie recognised their shared love of flowers. With a background in textile design and illustration, their visual training is a clear inspiration for the quirky arrangements. Both felt there was something lacking in the florists available online and so the seed was sown for the idea of a new kind of unconventional virtual florist. Using exclusively English seasonal flowers with masses of wild foliage, they will happily produce almost anything you can imagine. Their attention to detail is beautiful; they create flower combinations and colours that are very unlike the bunches you’d buy on the high street. The Flower Appreciation Society certainly are not your average kind of florists.
Not your average florist.
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Yull
Hoxton shoe by Yull. Style over fashion. Yull shoes produce unique women’s shoes and represent Britishness.
www.yull.co.uk
Style School
The only one of its kind in the UK, STYLE SCHOOL is dedicated to teaching you everything there is to know about the Fashion Industry.
styleschool.co.uk
Van der Brit
Be seduced by the glamour of the past and stylishly bring it into today’s fashion. Come and discover our collection.
www.vanderbrit.co.uk
Boys and Girls
Boys&Girls make bright & brilliant organic & fair-trade clothes for kids. From 0-10, from party to park – we are Out To Play!
boysandgirlsshop.com
Howkapow
A colourful online shop featuring unique work from new and independent designers. It supports and promotes emerging designers with a stand-out, smile-inducing style.
www.howkapow.com
PARTIMI
at Young British Designers
Dieu Bleu T-Dress from new label PARTIMI. Cool and simple - a beautiful deep- sea blue print in luxurious organic silk jersey.
youngbritishdesigners.com
A Alicia
Stunning eco-ethical jewellery by A Alicia, from knitted dip-dye necklaces to bangles in vintage kimono fabric, all handmade in London!
www.aalicia.bigcartel.com
Bryony Lloyd
Bryony works as a freelance illustrator from her home in London. She loves all things surreal, mystical and nostalgic and projects this in her work. Original artwork and screen prints are available at
www.culturelabel.com/shop/
bryony-lloyd-illustration
Bridget Harvey
Beautiful hand made jewellery using reclaimed wood, textiles and silver. Detailed and tactile, ready wear and custom.
www.bhmakes.etsy.com
UpStyler Classifieds
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Ombra
Ombra brings the spirit of a Venetian bacaro to East London: lively, friendly and unpretentious, it is a place for people to relax together over a glass of wine, a cup of coffee or a plate of cicchetti, or simply to soak in the atmosphere and enjoy the company of friends. Ombra is open Tuesday to Saturday from 8am to 11pm and on Sunday from 11am to 10pm.
ombrabar.com
Britain’s biggest vintage fair brings you something retro to do this August Bank Holiday
Judy’s is bringing over fifty handpicked traders from the four corners of the UK to the Old Spitalfields Market. Expect a one-day event that’s truly eclectic; fashions through to furniture, vinyls, arts and crafts, haberdashery, homewares and a whole host more, all waiting to be worn again. Free to the public, we’ll see you there. For more info go to vintagefair.co.uk
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