Stephanie Smith

2 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Stephanie Smith

This summer’s Victoria Leeds Fashion Week is set to be a big and bold affair, promise the organisers, following the success of last year’s showcase. VLFW will run from May 31 until June 8, a celebration of fashion from Victoria Leeds luxury labels and premium high-street brands, with a programme of events and experiences, all leading up to the highlight of the week, a showstopping catwalk event.

2 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Stephanie Smith

Asda is preparing to pilot its first new George stand-alone concept store in its home city of Leeds at Crown Point Retail Park. If successful, the George store will replace its Asda Living brand portfolio across the UK. This takes place as Asda celebrated the 60th anniversary of the opening of its first supermarket on May 3, 1965, although its roots date back to a Yorkshire family business in the 1920s. The new George concept store will open at 9am on Saturday, May 10.

2 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Stephanie Smith

There can be few more beautiful settings for a leisurely day out shopping than the Stables and Walled Garden at Hutton Wandesley Estate in the Vale of York. Twice a year, in April and September, this lovely converted Victorian stable block and its adjacent two-and-a-half acre garden are taken over by The Yorkshire Pop Up, a lifestyle shopping fair where around 30 independent brands from across the UK are invited to showcase their designs and products to a host of visiting shoppers.

3 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Stephanie Smith

When Nigella Lawson wore a silky mint green and pink dressing gown printed with a map of Venice, for her BBC2 series At My Table, it was a watershed moment for One Hundred Stars, the Sheffield-based, family-run fashion company that made it. “Oh my gosh, it blew up,” says Isobella Snook, who runs One Hundred Stars with her mother, Heather Stevenson. “Everybody wanted this dressing gown she was wearing while making cheeky brownies.”That was in 2017, just two years after the launch of the brand.

3 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Stephanie Smith

Julia Chapman picked up the Town Hall and moved it across the market square when she created Bruncliffe, the small town setting of her Dales Detective series of novels. But, says the author: “People will recognise it, if they know Settle.”The square is where Julia and I meet for our walk around the town that inspired the stomping ground of private detectives Delilah Metcalfe and Samson O’Brien.