Oli style notes

Camel trend at Oli.co.uk – this season’s hottest colour

Gemma — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:00:30 +0000

Trend alert! We could almost see the flashing sirens of the fashion police with the arrival of this latest trend… Camel is going to be HUGE this season. Beige tones, muted neutrals and warm caramel hues reigned supreme on the catwalks and they’ve translated so well to the high street this autumn. Will you be wearing it? Tell us in our poll below…

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If you don’t want to take the plunge and go head to toe camel, go for a hint of this shade with a trusty black dress. We love this Camel and Black one shoulder dress by Lipsy, £70 – click the image below to buy.

Lipsy one shoulder camel and black dress, £70 - click to buy

Tell us whether you love this colour trend or if you’re not convinced by voting in our poll below:

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Amanda Holden and the world’s most stylish granny!

Gemma — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:46:33 +0000

We saw a pic of Amanda Holden looking fabulous in this gorgeous pink dress recently. Nothing too out of the ordinary about that, right? Well, imagine our surprise when we looked a bit closer to find the world’s most stylish granny in the background. Rocking on-trend nude pinks, this mystery lady was giving Ms. Holden a run for her money in the style stakes!

Our fashion gran was rocking a nude pink dress, a layered cardigan and a hot pink bag, we’ve got a new style crush! And we have to admit, it gave us a good chuckle in the office to see Ms. H. being out-fashed by a senior citizen…

Do you know who this stylish gran is? Let us know by leaving a comment below or telling us on the Oli.co.uk Twitter feed @Oli_Blog or the Oli.co.uk facebook page. Or have you noticed any other celebs having their limelight unwittingly stolen? Share it with us, we do love a good giggle…

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Maternity wear launches at Oli.co.uk

Gemma — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:07:39 +0000

Well, the due date has arrived and we’re proud to announce the arrival of the newest addition to the Oli.co.uk family: Maternity wear! Now your baby bump can look stylish throughout your pregnancy with new collections from Mamalicious and Seraphine. And these collections are favourites of celeb yummy-mummies like Denise Van Outen, so you know you’ll look fabulous.

Maternity wear at Oli.co.uk - click to shop

The collections feature gorgeous maternity dresses, fabulous tunics for mums-to-be and baby-bump friendly jeans and jeggings, to mention just a few of the pieces. Click the image below to shop the collections:

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People always say that during pregnancy, women look radiant. Well, now you can have fab maternity fashion to match your own natural glow. If you’re not expecting, but you have friends or relatives that are, these make fab treats for mums-to-be. Happy shopping!

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Oli.co.uk night out!

Gemma — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:54:15 +0000

There’s nothing we love more at Oli.co.uk than donning our fave pair of heels, putting on a fabulous dress and hitting the dancefloor. So we recently ventured out in Leeds to spread some Oli.co.uk love and get our groove on! Here are the pics of us all rocking Oli outfits (with the exception of the boys…). We started with a fabulous buffet and a VIP area at a swanky bar in Leeds, then danced the night away:

Here’s the Oli gang enjoying a few drinks and nibbles (all wearing Oli.co.uk, of course!). Karen, our director is on the left working it in a fab maxi dress and Kath who looks after emails (in gold) had some lush eyelashes going on!

Anne, our web designer, was wearing a fab ruffle dress and THE shoes of the night. And here are the two Gems rocking grey (Gem S in Oli own label and Gem C in Poltock and Walsh for Oli Fusion):

Helen and Ruth from Buying were both looking super glam in Closet and Full Circle:

Her’s Matthew from Merch and Tracey from the web team in a gorgeous AX Paris maxi dress. And Alice from Marketing and Helen spread the Oli love!

Rebecca from Buying in a gorgeous Lipsy dress with Matt:

More posing, hugging and dancing!

Hope that’s given you some inspiration for your weekend party outfit if you’re heading out this bank holiday. And don’t forget, you can get free standard delivery until 31st August when you enter the code RNMP in your bag at checkout. Happy shopping!

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V-Festival style round up at Oli.co.uk

Gemma — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:21:07 +0000

V-Festival is as much about fab festival fashion as it is about the music and we spied some amazing outfits. The pop princesses were out in force in uber-glam dresses and heels – not a poncho or a dodgy wooly hat in sight!

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First up is the lovely Heidi Range from the Sugababes who proved that just beccause you’re at a festival, you don’t have to tone down the glamour:

V Festival 2010 - Heidi from Sugababes wearing a fab blue dress

Steal Heidi’s style with this gorgeous cobalt dress by Closet, £38. Click the image below to buy:

Closet cobalt dress, £39 - click to buy

Gossip Girl star turned rock chick Taylor Momsen was rocking Autumn’s underwear as outerwear trend, but kept it edgy by adding a leather biker jacket when she performed with her band The Pretty Reckless:

Taylor Momsen from Pretty Reckless performs at V-Festival

Get Taylor’s look with this Vero Moda leather look jacket, £52 – click the image to buy:

Vero Moda leather look biker jacket, £52 - click to buy

Festival trendsetter Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine indulged in Autumn’s gothic trend with this dress and its fab voluminous sleeves.

V Festival 2010 - Florence and the Machine

Steal her style with this chiffon pleat sleeve dress, £28. Click the image to buy:

Chiffon pleat sleeve dress, £28 - click to buy

And last but certainly not least on our fashion radar was queen of quirky, Paloma Faith rocked one of our fave trends of the season with this one shoulder dress:

V Festival 2010 - Paloma Faith in a one shoulder dress

You can steal Paloma’s style with this one shoulder dress by Lipsy, £65 – click the image to buy:

Lipsy one shoulder dress, £65 - click to buy

If you’re off to a festival over the bank holiday (Leeds and Reading festivals spring to mind…) then why not check out our festival fashion must haves? Just click the link below.Now, I wonder how these pop princesses coped with the mud over the weekend…?

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Friday fashion fix: red nails

Gemma — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:26:08 +0000

The end of another week in the Oli.co.uk office and as usual, it’s been a whirlwind of fashion, trends, gossip and of course, clothes. And to top the week off, everyone from the Oli.co.uk office is off out on the town tomorrow night to paint the town red, Oli.co.uk style!

Another thing a few of us (maybe not the boys… Well, not all of them!) will be painting red is our nails. We’ve seen autumnal reds appearing in the new season collections recently and we’re never ones to shy away from trying a look. Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud, Kelly Brook and Sara Cox from BBC Radio 1 have all been spied rocking red nails. You know what they say, two’s a coincidence, three’s a trend!

If you’re anything like us you’re probably always on the go doing a million things at once and you might not always get the time for a lengthy manicure. So when Gem from our Buying department showed us Nailese stick on nail polish, £5.95, we were thrilled! You just stick and go – no drying, no smudges and best of all, no waiting around which means more time for doing the things that matter (like shopping…). And this vampy yet understated red shade is perfect for channeling new season glamour. Just click the image below to buy:

Nailese red stick on nail varnish, £5.95 - click to buy

We’ve road tested these beauties and they last for up to ten days – yes, even when you’re clicking away at a keyboard or rifling through rack upon rack of beautiful clothes every day!

Red nails and Champagne Fridays... We could get on board with that!

Have a fab weekend, everyone! We’ll hopefully be putting some pics of the Oli.co.uk night out up on the blog next week to show you all the fab outfits that we wore

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Oli.co.uk needs YOU! Vote for us in the Cosmo blog awards and the Company Fashion Awards

Gemma — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:40:17 +0000

We love Oli.co.uk, you love Oli.co.uk and now the fashion industry are showing the love, too! We’ve been nominated for The Company Fashion awards and the first ever Cosmopolitan Blog awards in the e-tailer category and we need YOU to vote for Oli.co.uk in them.

Just click the images below to cast your votes. Thanks for your help!

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Keep checking the blog for updates on the awards and you can also follow Oli.co.uk on Twitter or become a fan of Oli.co.uk on Facebook for up to the minute news.

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The X Factor returns along with new style crushes at Oli.co.uk!

Gemma — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:12:29 +0000

Cue the big booming voice, cue the music, cue the dresses! That’s right, for the next few months our screens, magazines and celeb style crushes are set to be dominated by The X Factor. The latest series starts on ITV on Saturday at 7:30pm and we can’t wait!

X Factor - source itv.com 2010

We’re used to pitting Cheryl against Dannii and seeing who has the best outfit, but this series we’ve got a whole host of fashionista guest judges to inspire our looks. Here’s a rundown on who we think will be winning in the style stakes this series…

Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger’s sleek, sexy style will no doubt have Simon Cowell’s eyes popping if this little black dress is anything to go by! Geri Halliwell kept it low-key in denim for the Glasgow audtions, but added glamour with metallic heels and a camel-coloured leather jacket – very AW10!

Other guest judges have included Lipsy-loving Pixie Lott and effortlessly stylish Natalie Imbruglia gives her advice to the X Factor hopefuls. We reckon she’d love our Closet range of smart dresses, tops and trousers.

And we can’t wait to see which quirky ensemble Katy Perry puts together for her stint on the judge’s panel – lots of bling and coloured hair, maybe? Hmm…

And of course, these lovely ladies are all in addition to the reigning queens of X Factor fashion, Cheryl and Dannii:

Let the style wars commence! Do you love X Factor or do you wish it’d get voted off TV forever? Tell us what you think by voting in our poll:

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Fab transitional pieces: maxi dresses, tunics, boots & knits at Oli.co.uk

Gemma — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:20:01 +0000

The Oli.co.uk buyers have been hard at work pieceing together the best collections for you this season. If you’re looking to overhaul your wardrobe, Gok Wan style, then you’re in the right place! Today we’ve launched our capsule wardrobe which features ten essential pieces to give your look an update in time for AW10. Eat your heart out, Gok!

Gok Wan inspired our capsule wardrobe collection

Click here to visit our Capsule Wardrobe page, or see the best of this week’s new stock as chosen by the Oli.co.uk buying team below…

Well, the great British summer seems to have well and truly deserted us and it’s only mid-August. We’d normally moan about the lack of sunshine but the grey skies and not-exactly-scorching temperatures give us an excuse to do some lovely new season shopping! We’ve had loads of lush new pieces hit Oli.co.uk today, including some gorgeous knits that are perfect for layering as well as fab tunics, new season maxi dresses and more.

Here are our buyers’ favourite items from this week’s batch of lovely new clothes…

Ruth from our fast fashion buying team says:

“This abstract print maxi dress, £30 is a fab transitional piece – autumnal colours and a hint of animal print is a perfect nod to autumn’s trends whilst still being a firm summer staple piece.”

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Abstract print maxi dress, £30 - click to buy

Lucy works in our branded buying team. She says:

“We know that for our fellow shoe-lovers, nothing says ‘new season’ quite like a gorgeous new pair of boots. We love these Blowfish wedge booties, £60 – super cute and will see you through August and into Autumn. Click the image below for your shoe fix!”

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Blowfish wedge booties, £60 - click to buy

Helen works with Lucy on the branded side of buying. Here’s her pick of the week:

“If there’s only one item that you buy this month – it has to be a tunic. Functional fashion that will look great now with sandals or pumps and when it starts to get a bit colder, team with leggings and chunky boots. We’re loving this loose-fit striped tunic dress from Great Plains, £60.”

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Great Plains striped loose fit knit tunic, £60 - click to buy

Gemma works with Ruth in the fast fashion buying team and she loves this tunic:

“Tunic dresses are fab day-to-night outfits and with the bank holiday coming up there’ll be BBQs and parties galore, so make sure your outfit sees you from the afternoon into the evening. Team this Culture poppy print dip dye tunic, £36, with black platform heels and a clutch bag to nail the look.”

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Culture poppy dip dye tunic, £36 - click to buy

So there you have it – this week’s fashion essentials all picked out for you to buy… We’re too good to you!

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Vote for Oli.co.uk in the Cosmopolitan blog awards!

Gemma — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:31:33 +0000

Friday the 13th or not… Today is turning out to be amazing.

Not only is it almost the weekend (hurrah!) but we’ve also been nominated for the first ever Cosmopolitan Blog Awards! We absolutely love writing our Style Notes blog for you – chasing the latest trends, finding the hottest celeb style gossip and bringing you the best guest bloggers – so it’s fab to be nominated for these awards.

You can vote for Oli.co.uk/blog in the e-tailer category by clicking the image below. Don’t forget to tell your friends!

These award nominations have got us day dreaming about fancy award ceremonies and (more importantly) what we’d wear. We’re spoilt for choice when it comes to evening dresses and party dresses. Some of our fave red carpet regulars have been rocking one shoulder dresses lately… Steal their star style with these gorgeous pieces from Oli.co.uk:

We love Jada Pinkett Smith’s white one-shoulder dress and you can get the look with this John Zack chiffon dress, £35, just click the image below to buy:

John Zack one shoulder chiffon dress, £38 - click to buy

And we’re loving Victoria Beckham’s sparkly take on this season’s nude trend:

Steal VB’s super-groomed style with this Lipsy one shoulder pleated dress, £60 – click the image below to buy.

Lipsy one shoulder pleated dress, £60 - click to buy

That little lot should have us red-carpet-ready in no time.

Happy voting, hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

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