Emma Rowley

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How to be a reluctant video star

Nov 17, 2024 | emmarowley.substack.com | Emma Rowley

As you may have noticed, you can share video posts on Substack now - you can even go Live - which some people love and some think absolutely not for them. Which is fine - I want to speak to those in the middle, who think perhaps you might try it one day, but OhGoditfeelsabitembarrassing and where do you even start. Anyway, you’re a writer, baby. But actually, a lot of writers are naturally great at video - it can be just another route to telling stories and communicating.
How to stop shopping (so badly)

Nov 7, 2024 | emmarowley.substack.com | Emma Rowley

Thank God. For as the festive season approaches, peace on earth has returned to a corner of south London at least: Marks & Spencer is finally reopening its Brixton shop after extensive refurbishment and I CAN EAT AGAIN. Once more I can buy lemon flavoured breakfast pancakes, the world’s best Picky Bits for a piece-it-together lunch, and ready meals that are actually edible (a foray into Tesco’s range was a horrible, desperate revelation and never again).
My wild night with Rupert Campbell-Black

Oct 31, 2024 | emmarowley.substack.com | Emma Rowley

Like every other British woman* and, it seems, most of British Substack**, I have been watching Rivals. Of course I have been watching Rivals! I even signed up to Disney+ despite their terrifying sign-away-your-life contract to do so.
Receipts! Proof! Timelines! And Greggs

Oct 28, 2024 | emmarowley.substack.com | Emma Rowley

Hello! I write to you (not so) fresh from Saturday’s Hayu Fanfest, hosted by the TV streamer that is the British home to the phenomenon that is the Real Housewives - as well as many of the spin-offs and sister reality TV franchises also springing from NBCUniversal’s Bravo network.
Inside the Strictly star to bestseller pipeline

Oct 19, 2024 | emmarowley.substack.com | Emma Rowley

Hello! Part two on the (hell of) shopping theme, and my personal and hard-won (read: expensive) guide to surviving it all, will be coming. But before that, an interruption to normal programming, after a movie star got flack for announcing she’d be putting out a children’s book:That came shortly after I read another Strictly cast member has a dance-themed novel coming out.
Why it's so hard to get dressed these days

Oct 10, 2024 | emmarowley.substack.com | Emma Rowley

As I mentioned (sorry), I was recently in Paris for work, where I was transfixed by the general air of chic as everyone sashayed about the place. It was Fashion Week, but never mind the catwalks - it’s much more interesting to know what everyone is wearing in the streets or bars, I think, which I clocked as:Light blue straight long and slightly loose jeans.
Confessions of a bad reader

Sep 30, 2024 | emmarowley.substack.com | Emma Rowley

Bon jour mes amis! As you can surely tell, I’ve been in Paris on a work trip (but can I call it that when it involved a dinner and a party? And reams of incredibly chic Parisians, that inspired me off to sort myself out in Maje before my Eurostar. More on all that soon). Which is why this newsletter is un peu tard, je suis désolée. By now, you may have seen a lot of people sharing their Substack Summer posts, which sum up what they’ve been reading.
What I learned from death knocks, jewellery heists and a lot of standing about in the rain

Sep 19, 2024 | emmarowley.substack.com | Emma Rowley |Will Hayward

“GET yer Standard…”As long as the newspaper men (they were always men) were shouting that in the high street, you could feel like newspapers were still thriving, an editor I worked with once remarked. Of course we were all too aware of the reality behind that comment. And now the newspaper men don’t shout that every night any more. On Thursday, London was greeted with the final front page page of its daily Evening Standard.
Why is Donald Trump turning up in office inspo on Insta - while everyone's sharing their getting fired stories

Sep 8, 2024 | emmarowley.substack.com | Emma Rowley |Laura Brown |Melanie Ehrenkranz

Hello! I am back, recovered from the plague (well, a plague) with a pitstop to recuperate at the ultimate cliché of Londoners in the Countryside, (Soho) Farmhouse. Which poses the modern-day version of the question: if a tree falls in the forest, with no one watching, does it make a sound? Which is: if you’re at Farmhouse and don’t post a selfie on your socials, did you really go? Let’s find out.
The Morning After: a hungover whodunnit

Aug 29, 2024 | emmarowley.substack.com | Emma Rowley

Felled by Covid (ugh, how retro, somehow embarrassing, just as grim as ever) over the Bank Holiday, I have spent this week catching up on myself. Being ill is such a tedious reminder of all those undeniably true cliches: health is wealth, the best laid plans … often go awry (had to look the rest of that quote up, I admit). Throughout I have been cheered however by the launch of these:Sneex. The “luxury Hybrid Stiletto” aka the “Hy-Heel Sneaker” - we need more puns like this in fashion please.