‘Styling Without Mirrors’ Everyday, millions of women get up and get ready for their working day. 90% of them will have a reflective surface somewhere in their room in which they inspect their hair, make-up and clothes before they leave the house. But imagine if you didn’t have any way of checking what you looked...
What does your unique style personality say about you? When you meet someone for the first time, first impressions are made in 30 seconds or less. You may not like it, but the majority of these impressions are based on your clothes. So what you are wearing says a lot about who you are, your...
Decipher what you do and don’t need Every few months, we are confronted with articles on wardrobe essentials. We are bombarded with information that every woman ‘should’ have certain items in her wardrobe that make up a capsule collection, a foolproof selection of items that will make her feel fantastic. Fashion editors analyse trends and...
Is this right for me? It is estimated that on average women spend eight years of their lives shopping, and 100 hours a year in the changing rooms. “Why so little!” some may cry, but for those that do not enjoy it so much, how much precious time is being wasted? If we knew exactly...
Everyone has at least one version of me in her wardrobe. I save the day when nothing else works. You feel like you’re constantly looking for the “perfect” me. Who am I? It’s the LBD, a name so universal that it was added to the Oxford English dictionary. Now that makes it official. In...
Welcome to our ‘addiction’ series….. We will be looking at some key fashion items through history that we keep finding ourselves coming back to. We examine why they remain a staple in our wardrobes and show you how they have evolved and how best to make them suit you. First up…..RED LIPSTICK Women have found...
When working from home, a new question begins to emerge in the minds of entrepreneurs, freelancers, creatives and sole-traders: to get dressed, or not to get dressed? It may be easy to roll out of bed and onto your laptop, but can you really say you are ready for the day when you are wearing...
Welcome back to Part 3, this week we explore COOL colours. So what do certain cool colours symbolise? Let’s have a look. GREEN Like a new bud arising in springtime, green represents new life, fresh beginning and nature. Green is the easiest colour on the eye and can also improve vision. Given its association with nature, it...
Let’s paint the portrait of YOU Welcome back to Part 2, this week we explore WARM colours. As you paint your canvas (your body) in clothes and accessories, let’s see what the warm colours you may use for your personal brand actually mean. BROWN More men are likely to say brown is their favourite colour than...
Let’s paint the portrait of YOU Here starts the beginning of a 4 part series on COLOUR. At Zukuri UnLtd we take personal brand architecture very seriously and we think it’s important to lay the correct foundations to building a better YOU. This means helping you identify the right colour palette for you and your personal brand...
He loves me, He Loves me not.. We’ve all had that amazing love affair with the colour black at some point in our lives. It’s like that lingering bad boyfriend, who you should dump and stay away from but you just keep going back to time and time again. But today is the day, some of...
Welcome to 2012! It’s this time of year when we frantically try to make a million and one changes, sign up to gyms & eat healthily. But what is more important is changing your mindset. By the end of January most people are back to square one…falling into bad habits. What I want to propose...
Samantha Clarke is the fabulous Chief Creative Architect behind Zukuri UnLtd. Working with women to build and develop their UnLtd personal brand and style to achieve business success and win more clients