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If you haven't heard of this label, brace yourself for a bit of a style stimulus. Denmark's best kept secret Selected Femme is a veritable walk in wardrobe of covetable chic, easy pieces. The epitome of feminine cool SF is where it is currently at for style savvy females in the know. 

 And it is getting bigger. Quietly growing massive in the wings, the power house company Bestseller that is the brains behind this outfit is soaring from fashion strength to strength. Watch this space for a massive flagship store on Oxford Street any time soon and yet most of us have never even heard of it! Like a cool mix of Top Shop and Zara with a bit of sophisticated Banana Republic thrown in Selected Femme is surreptitiously waiting to explode in the UK. Oh and the prices are wildly exciting too. We can all afford it!

 This draped poem dress is one of my favourite pieces. Along with the chila romenesque version below . 

[Please note the links have been removed as these products are no longer available- they are for inspiration only.]

Banana Republic always hits the spot with its easy chic casuals and great work wear.  Accessibly luxurious, BR is where I head for a fashion hit when I’ve had a month that makes net-a-porter look like a dangerous place to be perusing. Particularly if I was not thinking of a re-mortgage.

Meanwhile breezing into BR feels only marginally like skating on thin ice, but just about justifiable. And if I fail to stick to the strictly research purposes only mantra that I adopt at the door the resulting damage will at least not be seizure inducing.

I am currently considering, sorry researching, this dress in soft chambray cotton. Perfect for weekend hanging out when you feel like wearing something other than jeans but want to look super laid back. Seriously effortless  (spray tan for the legs aside) grab this quick whilst it stays in the sale and keep your fingers crossed that the sun starts to shine.

Kate Middleton’s wedding day was to prove to be an event that sparked luck for many people around the world. Among these were Illuminum Pefumes. White Gardenia Petals Vaporizor Perfume was the perfume of choice for Kate on her big day. As the world received this information, there was much hype surrounding the line of fragrance. Kate Middleton was indeed the brands ticket to international acclaim. Illuminum Pefumes is a London-based brand. The popularity that the brand received led them to venture out into the US. Previously, Illuminum Pefumes were not available at any store in the US. The line of fragrance could only be ordered online via the retailer luckyscent.com. You can find these stocked in the US at the Henri Bendel store. There will be only a limited stock available and will include the one wore by Kate Middleton- White Gardenia Petals Vaporizor Perfume. You can purchase a bottle of White Gardenia Petals Vaporizor Perfume for around $150. White Gardenia Petals Vaporizor Perfume is all about the scent of flowers. It mixes together the fragrance from different leaves of flowers. These include Gardenia, Muguet and Jasmine. The perfume is fit for a bride since it parallels the beautiful scent of white flowers from a bride’s bouquet.

Henri Bendel store will also be stocked with other fragrances of the same brand. It will also be carrying its very special “haute perfumes”.  The great thing about this unique line of perfumes is that they are long lasting. Once put on, the scent of the perfumes will last up to 16 hours.

Many celebrities have excellent things to say about the brand. They are full of praises of its unique scents. President of Henri Bendel, Chris Fiore, instantly fell in love with the brand when he visited their shop at Dover Street.  The founder of this line of perfumes is Michael Boadi. He previously founded the line Boadicea, The Victorious. Boadicea has always earned a lot of cash for the store and so the owners are looking forward to introducing his latest line of fragrance. They have full of confidence in the success of their business venture. Aside from perfumes, you can also find scented candles and aromorizars. You can purchase car or home aromorizers. The candles and aromorizars smell equally good and leave you in a state of calm and tranquility. Those outside the US and UK can purchase these through the stores online website.

Lady Gaga is known for always being full of surprises. She never stops at reinvented herself.  It’s not only her style that she plays around with but also her business ventures. She never stops short of coming up with new and innovative ideas. She has previously ventured out into the world of fashion. She launched a fashion line for children that have been very popular. The fashion line for the kids is called Gaga Goo Goo. It has designed out of the ordinary styles for kids.  Her venture into fashion has been with her sister, Natali Germanotta.  Natali Germanotta is a young fashion designer growing with each passing year.

Her recent venture has been the launch of a new perfume. There was a lot of speculation surrounding her latest venture. This idea had been in the running for almost two years now. It is after a long time that it will be reaching its fulfillment.  Initially it was rumored that the name of her perfume would be Monster. However, it has recently been revealed that in reality the name of the much awaited fragrance would be “Fame”. She let her fans know this detail through a social media website. The name is quite befitting if we take into account the success of the Queen of Music.  Now there is just a few more months of waiting that needs to be done. The perfume Fame is all set to be introduced into the market in September. Back in 2010 Lady Gaga had described the perfume in peculiar terms. She has said that it would carry the scent of blood and semen. However, now she has denied that and has revealed the true smell of the perfume. It will consist of the scent of many natural ingredients combined. These include honey drops, saffron, apricot and Tiger Orchidia. The description given by Lady Gaga in a tweet has sure left all of us intrigued. The Perfume would resemble a thick black liquid. But once sprayed it will become invisible. In this sense it will parallel the style of Lady Gaga, which like the perfume is out of the ordinary, Lady Gaga has said that Fame will be like “a beautiful prospect with a dark heart”.  The bottle has been designed by Nick Knight. Nick Knight had been the director of Gaga’s “Born this Way” music video. The advertisement for Fame has been directed by another man who has also previously worked closely with Gaga, Steven Klein. Steven Klein was the man behind the “Alejandro” music video.

Fuse function and fantasy with this dream on Dior watch. Guaranteed to get your second hand ticking, as it were, wear it to remind yourself that a watch is not just a watch and that time really is money. But whilst we are on watch related clichés what better way could there possibly be to experience time on your hands? And money leaving your pocket.

You could gaze at it and stroke it a bit and generally love it up all day and still not get tired of it. Like men do with watches and we would more usually, under normal circumstances, do with Victoria Beckham dresses or a mulberry handbag.  Until now.

Actually I have never spent anything over £50 on a watch. I am more of a shoes girl,but this watch ( which to anyone not otherwise watch minded is clearly not a watch at all in the sense of a watch, more a piece of to die for, investment seducing sex inspiring jewellery in disguise)  could change all that forever.

It is possibly the most beautiful thing made by man that I have ever seen in my life.  Encrusted with  diamonds and red sapphire crystal inserts you can practically justify the expense on the basis that you will mourn for ever if you don't have it.  And if you do have it you will wear it forever instead. Always a pre-requisite for an investment purchase which is the only way this eye wateringly expensive watch can be described.

A fusion of style and sensibility these are the rubber equivalents of Jimmy Choos.  No country fashionista's wardrobe is complete without a pair and with festival season coming up fast your very own Hunters are a must-have too.

Achingly cool in an unlikely kind of a way for footwear made out of moulded rubber, who can forget Kate Moss working hers with a pair of cut offs and glamorously mud splattered legs at Glastonbury, causing an unprecedented rush on countrywear retailers across the UK? Because as with the best style setters, where Kate goes the rest of us follow, keeping our fingers and toes crossed that we too can step out looking like goddesses in the combination of practically no clothes and a pair of wellington boots.  

And it is not only us non celbs who try to emulate the fashion forward Miss Moss. The list of Hunter crazy females reads like a Who's Who of Hello, with the uber fab Lily Allen and groove chick Pixie Lott amongst them. Everybody loves Hunters. 

But fashion aside for a quick moment with mother, as a bit of a country puss myself I can lay testament to their enduring comfort and fit. Unsurpassed in the world of wellies, Hunters have this gloriously soft spongy interior, fitting your feet like a sensuously padded glove. And they go on for years and years. Durable as, um, tyres.  

So which do we love best? I particularly adore the black argyle with its red top edging.  Imagine how gorgeous these would look rocking at V teamed with a pair of hotpants and in my case a bit of airbrushing. Or for a deeply country girl kind of a look you could go for the originals in green, edged up with some black coated skinny jeans for maximum sex appeal. Alternatively I am loving the fuschia pink version for a hit of this season's candy coloured cool.