Style HQ

Maternity Basics

Hi Mummies to be!

Hope you all had a fab bank holiday weekend. We are excited to introduce a range of new colours on jersey basics that will be you wardrobe essentials for the chilly days that will soon be heading our way.

 

We have beautiful teal, autumnal wine and rich purple, as well as some fab new colourations of stripes in our cowl necks and basic scoops which are so  useful for layering over your jeans or leggings.

If you've got any questions about maternity dressing, get in touch at maternity@dorothyperkins.com.

See you soon xxxxxx

Vote for us!

We're super excited to be nominated in the Etailer category of the Cosmo Blog Awards 2010 in association with Collection 2000.

We're delighted to be included among the best blogs by online retailers, and to be recognised alongside some of our favourite fashion blogs, like The Clothes Whisperer and The Sartorialist.

If you've come here from Cosmo, you might want to read some of our most popular blog entries to see what we're about:

Take Ten, Take DP! featuring 10 of our favourite bloggers

Style Myths featuring Cosmo's Tash and Clare

The Style Hunter Shoe Challenge featuring Grazia's Hannah

Woodland Trust Week featuring DP's Ash and Christy

The DP Dress Up Challenge featuring Style HQ's Rach

See all the nominees (and vote for us!) here.

Becky x

V Festival Fashion Round Up

Style HQ stepped back in time this weekend. Yes that's right, we headed back to the 70s, if the fashion at V Festival was anything to go by! 

Out and about at the Chelmsford site, we were once again spotting the cream of the festival crop and boy did we have some choice. Boasting an audience of some 90,000, and with a corker of a line up ..... Kings Of Leon, Kasabian, Florence (also sporting a black 70s dress), Stereophonics, Paul Weller ... to name a few, V Festival has firmly cemented itself as one of the top festivals to see, and be seen at.  

One fashion decade definitely stood out to us this year, and within this, 3 key looks:

1. Kaftans

2. Headscarves

3.Boho Layering/Accessorising (as modelled by Style HQs very own Claire P, our Senior Designer, on the left)
 

So were any of our Style HQ readers at V? If so who was your highlight act and what were you rocking?

Steph x
 

Gossip Girl Series 4 Fashion Preview

Gossip Girl has officially replaced Sex and the City in the fashion stakes, and we can't wait for the new series to start, especially as they just released the new trailer:

Lucky for us, they're filming in New York right now, and catching a glimpse of the wardrobe for the next series is almost as good as watching the show itself.

With each character having a really unique sense of style everyone has a favourite, but for effortless cool, you can't beat Vanessa's seventies hippie vibe. This photo of Jessica Szohr, who plays Vanessa, filming in New York has us green with envy:

Photo by BDG/Rex Features 

Her look, combining paisley and ethnic prints, floaty shapes and tan accessories, is massive for AW10 and we'll be taking inspiration from this for our own wardrobes. Here's how we'll be recreating her ensemble:

 
 
Bag £22, Tunic £30, Clog boots £50, Crops £22
 
Tell us which character's style is you favourite and how you'll be getting the look in comments below.

Becky XOXO

Salt UK Premier!

Last night the lovely ladies from our special events team were lucky enough to attend the UK premier of Salt, the new action thriller starring the ridiculously beautiful Angelina Jolie!

Once the initial excitement of receiving the tickets had died down the panic of what to wear kicked in so Dorothy Perkins stepped in to style some A-list looks to ensure Lisa, Nina and Morgan looked the part. Maxi dresses all round we thought!

Lisa chose to style the versatile black jersey maxi with a chiffon tunic, Nina rocked the tie dye maxi with super high wedges and Morgan teamed the pretty multi heart maxi with a chunky beaded necklace and a cute quiff - looking hot ladies!

 Walking the red carpet the girls brushed shoulders with Angelina (looking stunning in floor length Amanda Wakeley), Joe Mcelderry and Leona Lewis (wearing a gorgeous green gown) before eagerly taking their seats for the highly anticipated film. All three are in agreement that 'the film is amazing!' and are sure box office success awaits! A must see we think, even if we can't all attend glitzy premiers, sigh.

Salt hits cinemas 20th August, will you be having a trip to the flicks to watch it?

Rach x

Take Ten, take DP!

Ten fashion bloggers + ten Dorothy Perkins black lace waistcoats = Project Take Ten!

Ten fabulous fashion bloggers have taken the gorgeous black lace waistcoat and shown us how they would each wear it. Jen,MJ,Sherin,Leia,Vicki,Adele,Saskia,Shini,Sabine and Sarahhave styled up the waistcoats in their own individual ways and we at Style HQ are loving the results! Click through to their blogs to find out their 'take' on the looks or check out the style montage and let us know who you think has worn it best?!

Rach x

A trifle vintage

With the most hotly anticipated vintage event of the year fast approaching .... just 1 day now till Vintage At Goodwood opens its doors, here at DP, we've come over a trifle vintage.

For those of you who are not heading down to fashion legend Wayne Hemingways festival du jour, we thought we'd share with you a couple of hidden vintage treasures you only have to turn your laptop on to find.

Cath Kidston's Vintage Lot  

Vintage Patisserie's Customisation

Try before you buy

Nail varnish is quite frankly in its element. Never has there been more choice, more column inches, more catwalk exclusives and more conversation dedicated to this beauty essential. 

 

But with so much choice, without buying the entire rainbow spectrum (which to be honest I am close to owning) how do you know which nail varnish is going to work for you? Well, look no further than OPI for the solution.

Rather than stand in store holding up a nail varnish to your hand to see if it suits, you can do this all from the comfort of your own home with the 'try this colour on' tool. Not only do you save money by not impulse purchasing, but there is also hours of fun involved!

If anything though, it has made us want even more OPI nail varnishes! But let us know, what nail colour are you loving right now?

Steph x

Style Myths: Day 5

It's the final day of our Style Myths Challenge and today we will take on a style myth each, hope you have enjoyed it. Have you had a favourite day?

Clare's Myth: Im showing that us petite girls can  wear over sized boyfriend shirts without them swamping us. I just wear a more fitted outfit underneath. Ive teamed my DP vest dress  with some denim shorts and vintage military shirt! You can also cinch it all in with a belt if you still feel drowned but I like it looking quite baggy!

Clare x

Tash's Myth: Everyone knows the age old fashion myth that curvy girls shouldn't wear stripes.. why not?! Just make sure you aren't wearing stripes head to toe. I teamed my strapless DP top with a maxi skirt and denim waistcoat. It's best to keep stripes on the top half if you are curvier and a block colour on the bottom!

Tash x

Style Myths: Day 4 - 'Maxi skirts make petite girls look shorter?'

People always say that maxi's are a no-no for petite girls as they make you look dumpy. I've paired my DP striped maxi skirt with a cropped top to try and elongate the body. I've styled the look up with an on-trend denim waistcoat popped on a must-have trilby and added some mega heels, done!

What do you think?

Clare x