Category: Britain

Fashion Icon Mary Quant

Mary Quant is the fashion designer most credited with creating the London-based Mod movement of the sixties. This is quite relevant still today as so much of today’s retro movement in fashion is based on the mod looks she invented for such figures as Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton and Marianne Faithful.. This was also known as the Chelsea Girl look. Even at age 77 Mary […]

Britain

Britain’s Rarest Wildflowers

Like many places in the world Britain is losing it’s biodiversity to invasive species, pollution, land development and other problems. Here is a look at some quite well-known British species that are becoming a rarer and rarer sigh An age old sight on dry cliffs and grasslands is Thyme Broom Rape Thyme Broom Rape is a strange palnt. I tis actually a parasite on […]