Love Your Local High Street!

Do you love your local high street? We certainly do, that’s why you’ll see an M&Co store on almost 300 local high streets nationwide!

To celebrate our longstanding presence on the nation’s high streets, we’re running a special ‘Love Your Local High Street’ campaign in all of our stores, running from 4th-10th May. All  of our valued customers, old and new, will get 20% OFF every full price purchase made in-store or online for the duration of the event and we think it’s a great way to celebrate shopping in the streets that mean the most to you.

Love Your Local High Street with 20% OFF at M&Co

And to get you started on your local shopping spree, we’ve chosen some items that we love – you’ll find many of these in your local M&Co store or online at www.mandco.com:

If there’s an M&Co on your local high street, let us know why it’s the best place to shop!

Find your nearest M&Co store

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Fashion Focus: Peplums

Inspired by the trend for all things feminine and frivolous this season, peplums are adding a pretty twist to sharp silhouettes. Pencil skirts, fitted tops and shift dresses feel slightly more wearable when a forgiving frill is added, drawing attention to nipped in waists and hovering over hips.

We love this new design detail so much this season that we’ve taken the classic little black dress and given it a dramatic peplum detail:

Black peplum dress £39

Model Natalia Vodianova makes a dramatic entrance in a black peplum dress at a recent event – simple accessories and chic red lipstick let her dress do the talking:

Model Natalia Vodianova at the V&A Design Fund Gala

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But for summer, why not try candy colours or tropical brights for an on-trend look? When peplums meet pink, it’s full-on girlish glamour – from bubblegum to lipstick, there’s no other shade that could perk up a peplum like pink:

Bubblegum pink peplum top £29

Lipstick pink peplum dress £39

Will you be wearing peplums this season? Let us know how you style the look!

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Featured Friday: The Weddingista

Bride on a budget? We’ve found the perfect blog to help you plan your dream wedding even if you don’t have a dream wedding fund!

The Weddingista, written by Susanna Kelly, is a blog packed full of tips and hints to get your “dream wedding without the designer price tag”.

There’s help with everything from where to get free wedding invitations to the best place to get bridesmaid dresses. As Susanna is a bride to be (getting married in 7 weeks’ time!) she’s in the perfect position to share her extensive wedding wisdom, so it’s a must-read if you’re planning your own wedding any time soon.

The great thing about the blog is that it caters for guests too, so bridesmaids and mothers of the bride will also find Susanna’s posts helpful when it comes to finding their own outfits. If you’ve received an invitation to a wedding this year, we’d strongly advise you to check out this blog before you go shopping for the perfect dress – it could be the difference between saving and splurging on the event!

Click here to visit The Weddingista and let us know if you’d like your blog to appear next in our Featured Friday slot.

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Behind the Scenes: Kylie competition winner’s design dream comes true!

It’s every girl’s dream to become a fashion designer, so Kylie teamed up with Go Girl magazine to make one lucky fashionista’s dream come true! In a money-can’t-buy competition, readers of Go Girl magazine submitted T-shirt designs to our Kylie team in the hope that they would be chosen to have their design made into an actual T-shirt to be sold in-store and online at M&Co.

After sifting through hundreds of entries, the Kylie team selected India Greenwood’s design as their winner!

India Greenwood with her winning T-shirt design

India got a taste of life as a fashion designer when she spent the day at our Buying Office in London.

As the winning designer, India got to work with the Kylie design team, helping them turn her T-shirt into a future Kylie bestseller.

India and Kylie designer Gemma White hard at work on the winning design

Every fashion insider needs to know what the next big trend is before anyone else, so India spent time with the Kylie buyers to get a sneak peak at what we’ll all be wearing this season and next.

India also got to meet Go Girl‘s Editor and the Kylie PR girls as part of her glamorous day at the buying office.

L to R: Rachel Price (Go Girl Editor), Donna Downing (M&Co PR Manager), India, Rachel Thompson-Plummer (Kylie Senior Buyer) and Gemma White (Kylie Designer)

India and the Kylie team show off the winning design

India's design dream comes true - the Go Girl Kylie T-shirt is born!

India’s eyecatching design was put into production and is now on sale in Kylie at M&Co stores and online at www.mandco.com. With glitter-covered hearts and bright colours, India’s T-shirt is a perfect fit for this season’s Kylie range.

Well done India!

Click here to see the T-shirt online

 

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News: Prima High Street Fashion Awards 2012

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve been nominated in several categories at the Prima High Street Fashion Awards 2012!

We need your votes, so if you love M&Co and think we deserve to pick up an award this year, nominate us over at the awards website by clicking on this link:

http://www.highstreetfashionawards.co.uk/survey/

Just by voting, you’ll give yourself a chance to win £500 of high street shopping vouchers so it’s definitely worth sparing a few minutes!

Let us know if you manage to vote and tell us which category you think we deserve to be crowned winners of!

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Get the Look: Samantha Cameron

The Chancellor’s budget may have been making headlines last week but the only budget we’re interested in is the one that relates to our wardrobe!

While politicians are known for their less than interesting fashion sense, the new First Ladies of politics can never be accused of shying away from making a style statement.

We’ve loved watching Samantha Cameron’s dress sense over the past few months and this outfit in particular caught our eye. On a recent trip to America, SamCam chose to wear bright fuchsia and navy, keeping up with Michelle Obama’s sunny yellow and white outfit choice.

Get Samantha’s chic look at M&Co, with sleek separates for under £30!

Belted tunic, £29
Sateen capri trouser, £26
Patent kitten heel, £30

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Behind the Scenes: High Summer ’12 Press Preview

Want a sneak peak at what’s coming next at M&Co? Our glamorous PR team get to see all the samples before they hit our stores and they hold press previews a few times a year where they show all your favourite magazines what’s coming soon.

We managed to get a glimpse of the High Summer ’12 collection from the recent press preview day, so we’re sharing our insider knowledge with you!

The mannequins in our London Buying Office showcase the season’s major trends – pastels, pleats and peplums with a hint of tribal print and metallics.

Here’s a taste of what your high summer wardrobe might look like – a clash of colour and print with plenty of statement-making pieces to choose from.

A closer look at the Boutique rail reveals plenty of summer occasionwear. Look out for a mix of metallics, muted tones, florals and fuchsia at upcoming weddings and parties.

Swimwear looks set to sizzle this summer with animal prints, tropical colours and florals featuring in the high summer collection.

And after the press had worked their way through the collections, our PR team treated the guests to dinner, cocktails, bowling and private karaoke at the swish Bloomsbury Lanes. We’re not jealous at all…!

The fashion press were very impressed by what they saw so look out for our HS12 collections popping up in fashion pages over the coming months.

We’d love to know what you think of our high summer collections now that you’ve had an exclusive preview of what they will look like so leave us a comment below and we’ll get back to you.

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As Seen On… Nadia Sawalha

Conversational prints are a favourite trend with us here at M&Co Head Office, so we’re pleased to see that one of ITV1′s super glam presenters agrees with us! Nadia Sawalha sported this bright blue M&Co bird print dress on Lorraine, so if you’re not an early riser and you missed our TV appearance, here’s a fab photo of Nadia wearing the dress:

We love how she’s paired the dress with nude courts, which lengthen legs if you find the midi dress a bit tricky to wear. Luckily, we’ve got plenty of nude shoes for you to choose from this season if you want to get Nadia’s look:


 

 

Catch Lorraine weekdays at 8:30am on ITV1

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Get the Look: Nautical

We’re used to sailor styles making an appearance along with the daffodils just about every spring, but this year’s nautical look is more wearable than ever. There’s a ’50s feel to this season’s ship-shape styles, with Breton stripes, polka dots and indigo denim all key to the new nautical look.

Here’s a few of our favourite seaside looks…

Belt £10
High waist jean £30
Sunglasses £10
Breton stripe top £16
Fringed loafer £25

Belt £5
Box pleat skirt £28
Cowl neck top £14
Stripe tote bag £22

Scarf £16
Swing mac £65
Breton stripe top £16

Hat £12
Bag £22
Scarf £10

Shop the nautical look here

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Fashion Focus: Prints Charming

Conversational prints are simply fabrics with designs that can start a conversation, so make sure it is your outfit everyone is talking about for the right reasons by choosing a statement piece from our range that will quickly become your wardrobe favourite!

We have a print to suit everyone, from classic stars and butterflies to our new arrivals of flamingos and parrots, that are ideal for those who want to be a bit more adventurous with their style this season.

Anya Madsen Butterfly Print top : £22

Anya Madsen Cherry Print top : was £18 now £13

Bird Print Jersey Dress – Yves Blue : £29

Butterfly Print Blouse – Black : £20

Butterfly Print Blouse – Coral : £20

Flamingo Print Top – Yves Blue : £20

Parrot Print Dress: £29

Petite Bird Print Cover Up : was £28 now £11

Petite Bird Print Top : was £16 now £11

Star Print Dress – Oxblood: £29

Petite Bird Print Blouse : was £30 now £12

Dragonfly Scarf: £12

Shop Prints Charming

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