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International Iron in Style super-stars announced…

August 18, 2011

Following on from last week’s post about ways to spice up your household chores, especially ironing, we are delighted to announce the ironing table super-stars who have won our recent Iron in Style competition. The challenge set to designers, domestic goddesses or just those wanting to experiment in some creativity, was to design a fun [...]

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How a domestic goddess can make ironing a little less tedious!

August 10, 2011

Fancy adding a splash of colour and fun to your ironing to make it a little less tedious? On average, women spend over 2 hours and 30 minutes a day doing housework: cooking, washing up, cleaning and ironing - 1 hour and 30 minutes more than men. And, out of all the household chores, ironing is widely [...]

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“The delightful scent of clean linen inspired me to a fresh painting with spring blossoms.” Have you seen the winning design?

July 22, 2011

Dutch woman Gerda Elzenaar has been named the 2011 international winner and new Iron in Style star! This year’s Iron in Style competition attracted 73,418 visitors and Gerda’s winning spring-fresh blossom design will be going into production in Europe. The competition was open to anyone in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and France, and the [...]

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Why the fashion world has opened its doors to let the florals in!

May 5, 2011

Nothing feels more like spring/summer time than floral prints and floral accents. Earlier on this year Milan Fashion Week made way for the D&G Summer 2011 collection (see the video below), which blossomed with bluebells and roses from head to toe and vintage-looking flowered fabrics. This latest trend sees pieces brightening up wardrobes in bright botanicals, [...]

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Iron in Style – The first results!

May 3, 2011

We had some amazing designs in our Iron in Style competition this year and a staggering 73, 418 visitors to the website! Well time has now run out and the national winners have been announced. In the UK, Joanna Birkett flattened the competition. Her design, with a contrast of white elements of nature against a [...]

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Guest Blog: “I get my inspiration from commercials, music videos, movies, graffiti and visual art”

March 28, 2011

Our guest blogger this week is the 2010 winner of our Iron in Style Competition dutchman Joran van der Haar. Here he shares his views on winning the competition, what inspires him as an artist and news of his latest exhibition in Amsterdam. [Check out his winning design - Love Ghent >>> here ] “I [...]

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