Rachel McTavish (pictured here with her Michelle Tote), is one of the UK’s most experienced broadcast journalists, having presented the news for the likes of ITV, BBC and GMTV for over 2 decades, as well as being on air and leading ITV News channel’s coverage of the Twin Tower attacks. Read our interview with her here all about her career, how her style has evolved and her top tips to feel confident.

Sarah Haran founded her luxury handbag company while working in a successful career in IT. Now, she has a whole range of designs that support other women to feel a million dollars, organised and confident.  With this insider info, Sarah’s selected her pick of brands from women who’ve left successful first careers in business to launch their own fashion labels. Not only beautiful, these practical designs will help you build an easy-to-wear work and weekend wardrobe with wow factor. 

Here, our icons of female confidence feature alongside the best books and documentaries to read and watch if you want to find out more. We hope you’re inspired…

Caring for your bag is the easiest way to maintain its original beauty and keep it in top condition through its lifetime guarantee. We’re fans of responsible fashion, which means buying fewer, better quality things, and doing our part by caring for what we do buy so it lasts

It’s often said that women are excellent multitaskers, so it comes as no surprise to learn that Gillian Crawford has managed to successfully combine three entirely different careers and excel in each simultaneously. As the founder and creative director of Lily Blanche jewellery, a trained archaeologist and features writer for The Times, she certainly debunks the myth that you can’t ‘have it all’.

Hepburn. Surely one of the world’s most stylish surnames. Do those two syllables conjure the perfect LBD or a pair of sharply cut wide leg trousers? Breakfast at Tiffany’s or a brisk walk and game of tennis? Audrey and Katherine Hepburn have left not only a celluloid legacy of Hollywood’s most golden films, but a flat shoed footprint on how we define style. Trends may come and go, but the Hepburns are forever. 

Rhona Baillie is the Chief Executive of the recently opened £21million Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow. It’s the first centre for palliative in the UK that has been designed using the Sengetun model – an innovative Scandinavian ward layout that puts the needs of patients and family first and offers privacy, dignity and compassionate care for people of all ages.

After graduating as an interior designer, Lynne Kennedy M.B.E went on to create set designs for the BBC and STV before moving into a highly successful career in the publishing and events industry. After running her own company for 15 years she launched Business Women Scotland (BWS) to celebrate female entrepreneurship and support women in the world of business and commerce. 

Long before it was fashionable to take a selfie, before Annie Hall wore rumpled menswear and before Madonna made bushy eyebrows du jour…there was Frida. Frida Kahlo was an artistic, feminist fashion pioneer and the V&A’s current exhibition ‘Making Her Self Up’ explores how Frida used clothing, cosmetics and jewellery to create her iconic self-image.

It doesn’t really matter what decade you were there, so many of us are united in the unshakable memories of our school days. Years of jam roly-poly for pudding, battling the pimples and contraband uniform customization. Did you roll your skirt up at the waist to flash more knee? Shorten your tie? Or cover every inch of your satchel and the inside of your blazer with pin badges: perfect little proclamations of your adoration for Marc Bolan, Simon Le Bon, Bono or Bros? 

In a touchscreen world of typing and swiping, there is something undeniably elegant about using a beautiful notebook. As our lives become more dependent on digital keyboards and pin-pad devices, we’re yearning to reconnect with the physical world that we once took for granted.

Since launching her media career in the mid 2000s, Antonia O’Brien’s name has become synonymous with a seemingly endless portfolio of sartorial knowledge. As an acclaimed fashion journalist, stylist and television presenter, she certainly understands the significance of dressing stylishly. A self-confessed Sarah Haran devotee, we spoke to Antonia about the importance of investing in long-lasting, high quality pieces that work regardless of age or lifestyle. 

Leopard print catwalks the fine line between fabulous and tarty, and for the novice it can feel as perilous as clattering down cobbles in a pair of Bet Lynch’s slingbacks. It might sound a little bonkers but when styling think of leopard as a nude or a neutral. There isn’t much enhance, but it’s more about pairing it nice quality fabrics and avoiding anything too tight, too short or too shiny. 

Most of us are familiar with the term ‘fast fashion’ and the movement behind it to turn around the collections in high street stores at lightening pace. While it can be fun to shop new ranges each time you visit your favourite stores on the high street or online, there is no doubt that we compromise on the quality of the items we wear when we choose to buy from fast fashion brands. 

Today we met Angela Buttolph to talk to her about our brand. Angela has worked as a fashion writer for over twenty years, contributing to every major magazine from Vogue to Elle, presenting a number of fashion shows for major TV channels and regularly contributes to The Sunday Telegraph. Angela is also author of Kate Moss: Style, a 'style biography' about the fashion icon of a generation. Here is what we chatted about...

There are days when a smaller handbag is just what you need, when you want to downsize the amount of stuff you are carrying. This is where our mini cross body handbag comes to the rescue. Designed because I had received requests for a smaller pouch handbag that could be used as an insertion in our Dahlia handbag or separately as small bag for evenings or casual moments when you simply do not need a large handbag.

Once I designed the Dahlia handbag it was clear that the front pocket would actually be a great handbag on it's own. All it needed was a strap and it's own tassel to create its own personality and my customers could purchase a smaller handbag that was just as versatile and smaller for those moments when a bigger handbag was not needed. It became a simple decision to split the front pocket away from the handbag and so I set off creating a new pattern. 

Read about how it all started, our concept, a day in the life of Sarah Haran and so much more...