Fifty-nine, looking down the barrel of sixty
I was fifty-nine last week. Not sixty yet... not for another year... but fifty-nine feels portentous. It's the year before the year which in a way turns it into the dress rehearsal. Some of you will have seen from Instagram that I was chatting to somebody recently who was dreading her forthcoming 60th birthday so much that she couldn’t even speak the word. She’s banned all family and friends from mentions of it and celebrations – her sixtieth is [...]
Sunshine, swimwear and a peek inside the John Lewis summer edit
There's a particular kind of optimism required to style a summer edit on Newcastle's quayside when the East wind has clearly not got the memo. Linen, in May, with the Millennium Bridge arching overhead and the Tyne glowering below (the down jacket came off between shots but the goose pimples stayed put). However I'd been invited to do a John Lewis summer wardrobe edit and if anything I think the colder the shoot, the harder you dream of warmer [...]
A wardrobe clearout
It's just a quick post from me today. We had a horrible journey back from Croatia with plane delays resulting in us finally crawling into bed at 7.30am yesterday morning so everything feels upside down. I haven't had chance to write a blog post so instead I'm sending the Midlifechic Boutique live as I've been gradually filling it during my latest clearout. As always I'm raising money for Blood Cancer UK. Almost everything is brand new with tickets - [...]
The Queen and I – elegance followed by the everyday
You're going to find this a post of contrasts today. I want to start by talking about an exhibition of Queen Elizabeth's style that I previewed recently and end with distinctly less regal everyday life in Newcastle. Right now I'm in Croatia, tomorrow we're due to head off for a few days of sailing around the islands and I'm praying that the weather forecast will improve. If you want to see if it does (or whether we spend our [...]
The slow stitch of time
A week with my adult children - and the small impacts I didn't know I'd had... Ok so I'm still playing catch-up. We're rewinding to the Easter weekend today and a story that I've been dying to tell you, I've had to bide my time and now it's here. For those of you who come for the clothes there isn't much to show you today - but for those who come for the meandering midlife tales there's more. [...]
Midlife magic on Mexico’s Pacific Coast
This year is turning into a runaway train for us, we'll be a third of the way through it next week and so far I've spent far more nights away than I have at home. I have so many stories to tell you about the things we've been doing and life in general and I'm running to catch up so today I'm going to take you back to Mexico for the third part of our adventure there. Even though [...]
Style updates and spring colours
I have more new season ideas for you today - ways of updating your look as style starts to move on a little as well as some classic summer brights that are perfect for the summer months ahead. When I took these photos I had a sense of my worlds colliding because it was just as we were waiting for the last Midlifechic Retreat to begin. As readers started to gather in the sunshine they had a ringside view [...]
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Hi, I’m Nikki Garnett, for 9 years I was the editor of Selfridges’ magazine. Now I’m married with 3 sons, a cat called Alfie and a dog called Ted. I live near the Lake District in the North West of England and run a small creative agency with my husband.
I created Midlifechic because a little while ago, amidst all the chaos of family and working life, I was beginning to feel like I’d lost my groove. So this is for anyone else out there who is emerging from the child centred years and looking forward to beginning a whole new chapter.
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Hi, I’m Nikki Garnett, for 9 years I was the editor of Selfridges’ magazine. Now I’m married with 3 sons, 2 cats and a dog called Ted. I live near the Lake District in the North West of England and run a small creative agency with my husband.
I created Midlifechic because a little while ago, amidst all the chaos of family and working life, I was beginning to feel like I’d lost my groove. So this is for anyone else out there who is emerging from the child centred years and looking forward to beginning a whole new chapter.
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